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Plus if he continues and Misago becomes feature rich, it'll be a competitor product. The more competition there is, the better it is for the consumer.
Good stuff.Today I've launched redesigned threads list on project forums. With redesign I hope to offer better support for long thread names, simpler markup and faster access to information:
http://misago-project.org/forum/feedback-and-suggestions-9/
This is rebel approach to threads list, considered how different it is from approach used by other softwares, so I would love to hear what everybody thinks about them.![]()
I'm using incrementing approach to development, so there will never be "final product", however I hope for 0.6 to be first release that will be "feature complete", or if you wish, implement everything expected from forum software.
I admit that development pace is not as fast as I was hoping for, ergo to start working on stabilising 0.6 late summer, but thats reality for you.
As it is now I have no income sources spending my time working on startup with friend and occasionally doing small sidejobs to earn small money that then gets spent in matter of week or two on necessary things.
While my friends are helping me out tie ends together and stay afloat, interest Misago attracted didn't really turn into donations. I didn't expect project to buy me anything, but as it is now I'm wondering how I can get money to pay hosting fees to keep project site running. So if anybody has spare buck and feels generous, I'll be more than grateful for paying project site a visit, hitting that orange "donate" button and sending me few bucks. Thanks!
Do you not think the font-size used for forum titles is a little on large side, should maybe be made a smaller, possibly bolded when made smaller? As that font-size used doesn't leave much room for using long forum name titles before over-lapping onto a new line
Also, I suggest that the software be licensed using something a bit less restrictive. GPL is really a radical license which is pushing an agenda. If you really care about freedom, as in actual freedom, then you should use something simple like BSD, MIT, or at the very least LGPL.
That's an interesting point. I think it should go a bit smaller, no bolder, but only a little bit smaller.
Do you not think the font-size used for forum titles is a little on large side, should maybe be made a smaller, possibly bolded when made smaller? As that font-size used doesn't leave much room for using long forum name titles before over-lapping onto a new line
- Looking at the thread list again, I think you need one more thing to add a bit more interest to it, while maintaining the simplicity. Maybe a few small icons on the right side, or even a five-start rating bit.
- I like the "John Doe closed this thread at 5:00 pm" bit, but you should collapse multiple occurences of these into the latest action. For example, take a look at this thread. http://misago-project.org/thread/please-dont-use-this-forum-for-feature-requests-30/ If that were a dispute between moderators, the website may prefer that that not be visible.
- Trash the registration system and go for openID.
- What password hashing methodology do you use?
- That CAPTCHA is not sufficient for the long term.
- What do multiple subforums look like? While your view forum display has a lot of room for long titles, that can't be said for the forum display, particularly with sub forums.
- "Latest Replies" doesn't contain the name of who posted the reply, making it more a topic list than a reply list. That's fine, but the name seems misleading. The links also go to the first page of the topic. Maybe "Latest Discussion?" Also, you may want to apply an activity based algorithm to this so that larger forums can keep trashy topics off of this list.
- Is "Forum Rules" hardcoded, or a custom page?
- What algorithm does "Popular threads" use?
- It would be nice to use autocomplete on the search box's person selector. The jQuery UI component does this well.
- Instead of pages, use auto-loaded when you scroll down.
$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ sudo python get-pip.py
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python ez_setup.py
wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python