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Forum Experiment
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:29 am
by Grim...
I've come up with what I think is a new idea in the way forums can be built, so I built one as an experiment.
It's probably much easier if you took a look rather than have me try to explain.
Basically, it's a cross between multi-threaded and single-thread forums.
You can take a look (and post, if you wouldn't mind):
http://www.hsmx.com/flow
Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:48 am
by hawleyjr
Very very cool. good job.
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:51 am
by Grim...
It has it's share of issues.
First, because it is table based, if someone makes a long post it will push all other posts on the row beneath downwards.
I think using CSS could fix that - I may have a go.
Also if two people try to post in the same place at the same time, well, I have no idea what will happen

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:58 am
by CoderGoblin
Very cool although easy to get lost in especially if people place in lots of text as previously mentioned.
Trouble finding the latest messages.
Can see other uses for it rather than a forum 'workflow for instance'. In my opinion it would be ok for technical geeks but the average "dumb user" would get lost. If looking at a forum I frequently look at only the top and last post to see if I need to read the ones in between.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:00 am
by m3mn0n
Meh, I like this style, it has more continuity.
Some may think not, but if you use the Quote feature, it's all good.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:23 am
by d3ad1ysp0rk
It makes me happy. Except when it goes BOOM! and flies everyone (aka horizontal scrolling).
However I think it should be more like, instead of picking which way to go, replies to the original topic go down, and replies to others posts go right/left
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:47 am
by Grim...
Sami - the quote feature just causes the same thing to be said over and over again.
LPS: Yeah. You could, of course, just tell your users that. I think once the novelty of being able to post in lots of directions wore off, it would become more structured.