Blogora, Blog + Forum Platform, Released as Alpha

David Mulder just Alpha-released Blogora, “a project to create a blogging platform tightly integrated with a forum”... and a project spun off by looking at how the Blogoscoped blog and forum functions.

A bit of a back story: You might have noticed that Blogoscoped is both a blog and a forum, and that there’s some integration between the two parts. For instance, sometimes a forum thread will later on also be blogged, in the case of which you’ll see something like “12 + 8” comments (meaning that 12 comments were made before, and 8 after this was blogged). Sometimes there were questions on whether the whole Blogoscoped code could be released as open source, and while I have many open source projects around there was one obstacle with this – I would basically have to rewrite large parts to turn it into a neat module manageable for anyone (managing not by jumping into a specific SQL table or code line like I do when I want to tweak X or Y to get a certain resu [...]
URL : http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-05-n32.html
Date : 2009-01-05 23:36:47
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