Dear lazyweb, trying to find a discussion system…
February 21st, 2009 | Published in Work | 7 Comments
I’m trying to find a web-based discussion system that has the following features:
1) Web feeds
2) Email gateway for reading/replying
3) Threaded discussions
Partial points for two out of three.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:04 am (#)
You can do all three with phpBB (depending on your definition of “threaded” and, of course, on where you stand on love for phpBB). I don’t think feeds and email-to-forum gateway are part of the default feature set, but I’m a member of one forum that has those features.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:12 am (#)
http://OnlineGroups.net – the hosted version is free, or download their open source back-end. E-democracy.org is a big client. Made in my hometown!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:13 am (#)
google groups?
February 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm (#)
roundup (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/roundup) is a mail based system with or web gateway (and the other way around). Feeds can be added with plugins (http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/roundup/wiki/FeedGeneration). I’m not sure about threaded discussions, but may be it can be added with some lines of python.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:22 pm (#)
Drupal could do that, if you don’t mind dealing with a few add-on modules.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 am (#)
How big a site? How big an elephant do you need to kill?
slashcode?
April 29th, 2009 at 4:53 pm (#)
We use http://www.nabble.com and are pretty happy with it.