Seriously, Someone Start Working on Some Awesome Forums
RIGHT NOW.
Why are there no awesome javascript-y forums? I like the Channel9 ones, but they are buggy (sorry, usually I love M$ junk).
This is a huge market. Get on with your bad self, independent developer!
Honestly, there is never a reason for a full page load when navigating an individual forum. You will see on my site the need for new pages is slim. I may have gone overboard, lol. I overzealously avoid postbacks (though, JS nazis like BillRob may disagree)
I commented my code tonight (rare - in good practice as we all know I believe) and this is what it looked like:
//only return classifieds that are active and <45 days old
//THIS IS WRITTEN LIKE GARBAGE
Thus illustrating yet again how comments are only needed when your code is pooly written and therefore wouldn't make sense to someone else quickly.
That's it, it's 1am and I still have a TEENY bit of work to do.
Note: upon beating said horse until dead with pragmatic friend I do not agree with sentence one of principle 5. I also don't buy into the docterine of Buddhism, nor do I believe that these words generally reflect Buddhism, or that they don't for that matter.
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Comments
Alvin Ashcraft on on 11.19.2008 at 7:12 AM
Hey Sara - Have you checked out stackoverflow.com? It's not js-specific, but it's a nice forum to discuss any language.
Alvin
Wes P on on 11.19.2008 at 7:32 AM
Has she checked stackoverflow... you must be new here ;)
Scott on on 11.19.2008 at 8:06 AM
Why write something that is already written unless it needs improvement?
Why write another UserVoice there is already one out there?
Why write another Forum software when YetAnotherForum has an amazing user base and does a very good job at Forum software.
Why write another BlogEngine when someone has already taken up the call?
Forums are great, but YetAnotherForum is a great forum software.
When I already have something thats well maintained why create another?
Omar Kooheji on on 11.19.2008 at 8:13 AM
@Scott I think she wants an Ajax enabled forum not just a good piece of forum software...
@Alvin Stack isn't a forum, it's a Q and A site...
James Curran on on 11.19.2008 at 9:03 AM
The comment reminds me of one I wrote many years ago....
// inCREDibly hack to get this to work
blah --blah -- code -blah
// OK, you can look now.
As for principle #5, it seems to reflect the belief (which is still rather hard to shake, particularly among Republicans) that wealth is a zero-sum game: For me to win, you must lose; for me to be wealthy, you must be poor. Virtually every bad economic and foreign policy decision can be traced to that belief.
James Curran on on 11.19.2008 at 9:05 AM
Ok, Gravatar test. I used an uppercase "C" in my last message. Let's see if it come out right when it's all lowercase.
schipps on on 11.19.2008 at 6:45 PM
@Wes - Alvin is a GD origional gangster GD reader, since BSO (before stack overflow)
@James, I agree with your viewpoint.
David Hofmann on on 11.22.2008 at 6:37 AM
hey, very inspiring for creating a new forum :)
I haven't seen any GWT based forum/blog
It is anyway difficult to make it because as everything becomes ajax-y, things for indexers becomes problematic.
Also targeted ads wont really work well, of course, it depends on how you make it, but in general, as the website becomes more application-like you solve some problems but find others.