On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 08/30/2011 11:33 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: >> Someday, perhaps we'll end up back on an authenticated version of NNTP, >> with support for bbcode, images, and the front end reader of your choice... > > Thats quite a good idea - and something that we explored at length when > looking for a replacement software for the existing forums. And while > that would be nice to have, reduce content duplication and assert some > level of authority across venues etc, its still not really the > master-solution. Unless there are hub sites that aggregate all the feeds this sounds like it would require per-target, per-client, per-platform configuration to set up authenticated access, which would be fairly horrible for anyone who likes to use multiple programs on multiple devices to access a large number of sites. And inventing a new protocol for programs that don't exist to do something that many of us think is already handled correctly by email probably isn't a great idea. > The bridge would be good to have, but there are lots of > people who chose a venue to work with based on their own expectations, > comfort level and media they prefer working with. In some cases, like > the people here on the list - mailing lists are the way to go. Others > prefer to use the forums. While plenty hang out on IRC. Lets not take > the choice away from people. I still think rss could work with existing aggregators like google reader to make forum reading tolerable and clicking through to reply not too annoying, but the feed needs to include the whole posting or enough to catch most of them without having to click through. Is that something that can be configured? I tried to look on the xoops newbb site but their rss feed actually just gives an error which doesn't look promising. Also, it would be nice if the web side had a mobile view so you didn't have to zoom in to be able to read each article when you click through on a phone. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com