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Your word verification images are terrible

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:54:55 GMT

The word verification program you use is really really hard for anyone who has any reading difficulty. It really messes with my dyslexia. Please consider new images that are not a horrible guessing game. With all due respect. (I'm sure whoever is designing your images doesn't realize how hard they are to read for people with disabilities.) - 1 reply

RE: Email interface?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:18:26 GMT

I agree with mamadrum, and I think this could be a very good replacement for listservs. However, I don't see how Blogoforum-like "groups" is relevant. Can you flesh that concept out a bit more? - 1 reply

RE: Email interface?

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:17:56 GMT

Hey mamadrum, thanks for cheering me up and for your suggestion. You are probably talking about something like Blogoforum being mailing list web interface and vice versa right? I'm re-organizing Blogoforum so people would be able to create their own Blogoforum-like "groups" here. Please let me know about your requirements. - 1 reply

Email interface?

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:45:06 GMT

This is a very nifty site and I'm thinking about whether it would be appropriate for a collection of online working groups. Some folks are just used to email and it would be interesting if one could subscribe and post to threads in some way. If there was a simple syntax that would allow an email-poster to add tags (say tag: on the first line) it would allow folks who work linearly to stay engaged. (One benefit email has is that you can read and send it while on a plane.) - 1 reply

RE: testing embebed video

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:53:07 GMT

Nice, but I'm really not interested in seeing HTML codes on the frontpage, probably it's best to strip those. - 1 reply

RE: Adding VOTING feature

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:52:14 GMT

I actually mentioned Blogoforum in the context of reputation systems (specifically, the Whuffie system, though in my fervent dreams they change the name) here: http://krotty.livejournal.com/15051.html I certainly think that another means of slicing through the posting system would be wonderful. Various lenses are certainly within reason; a personal reputation system is always an interesting choice. - 1 reply

RE: Adding VOTING feature

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:01:58 GMT

Hi Super Deddd, Thanks for joining Blogoforum and for the post! We discussed voting system here, voting system is to be considered, and may be we will find something more advanced. - 1 reply

RE: more languages

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:48:34 GMT

I would like spanish too! : ) - 1 reply

RE: more languages

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:16:01 GMT

S�, por favor. ESPA�OL! - 1 reply

Long Thread or Short Message

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:21:56 GMT

This point is interesting. I may change presentation algorithm in a future. But what I'm thinking about more is - discussion groups (tag groups) and message bookmarking. Actually Blogoforum can change presentation algo based on what messages are bookmarked. This is interesting. - 1 reply

RE: Edit and Long Thread Problem

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:16:31 GMT

I'll be the devil's advocate here, OK? :-) You can look at it as a matter of grouping messages. You can group messages into large groups -- long threads. Or you can make only short groups of 3-5 messages, just like now in Blogoforum. So you can have a relatively small number of large groups, or a large number of small groups. The benefit of having large groups is that a user once she has written a post in a thread, she can easily navigate back to the place of interest. Navigating means picking the right group of messages. It's easier to navigate in smaller amount of objects than in large amount. So getting back to a long thread is easier than getting back to a short thread. - 1 reply

RE: Tag Cloud Makeup Continued

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:14:39 GMT

I have to write it for you, because I haven't read it anywhere, I just constructed the equation myself. Here you go: Let's say you want your your tags in sizes from 1 to 10, according to their counts. I'll use pseudocode here. You define boundaries: pmin <- 1 pmax <- 10 Then you calculate the min and max values from your tags: vmin <- min(values) vmax <- max(values) Now, let's say you have a tag with 'x' occurences. The log-size of your tag is: int((pmax - pmin) * (log(x)) / (log(vmax)) + pmin) - 1 reply

Edit and Long Thread Problem

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:28:26 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion Jason! In the future, Blogoforum will let to edit the message and its attributes plus will keep change history. One of problems which Blogoforum is aimed to solve is long threads. Long thread is a problem: - people rarely read what's inside thread - while real knowledge or important and interesting messages can be hidden in the middle of a long thread and rarely who will find them - during the thread, actual thread subject may change several times, people end up speaking on other things but thread novice can't identify the change - because of possible subject change, an original poster may scream "Don't put offtopic onto my thread" - I can continue but I would better do some development However, a lot of conversations do have thread-like structure. That's why Blogoforum does some steps in this direction: http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+message+thread+tree/message-threads-on-blogoforum-1848.html - 1 reply

RE: Tag Cloud Makeup

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:27:13 GMT

What I dislike about current tagclouds is that there is ONE HUGE TAG, and 90% of the remainig tags are very small. It looks like the cloud is 90% trash. I suggest: - Filtering out the least frequent tags - Applying a logarightm function to the tag sizes. It will reduce the graphical domination of the most frequent tags. I did it with my project: http://automatthias.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/size-and-color/ and it works fine. - 2 replies

Return to the post after signing in

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:10:26 GMT

Denis, you encouraged me to throw more suggestions. Here you go! What happens: - I browse the blogoforum, not signed-in. I don't care about being signed in at the moment. - I find an interesting post, I want to reply. - I realize I'm not signed in. - I sign in: type my login, password, press the button. - I find myself in my personal Blogoforum page, instead of the post I wanted to comment on. I would be best if after signing in went back to the place where he/she was just before signing in.

sugerencias de edicion

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:40:32 GMT

como edito los post que yo envie a blogoforum? how to edit my post in Blogoforum? me perece buen sitio pero todavia le faltan mas opciones} Saludo Aldo.mx - 1 reply

Frontpage views

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:49:32 GMT

I'm thinking about what to show on the frontpage of Blogoforum. A list of recent discussion like currently present is a must of course. And so is the tagcloud. There are different tagclouds to consider, however. I can think of two: 1. A "what's being talked about now" tagcloud with popular tags in the past x days. 2. A more general "what's being talked about" with all-time tag popularity. Although this is probably less useful. Then what also would be interesting is a list of "hot" topics, topics that got the most hits or most replies, or the most replies in a short period of time. I think some sort of digg/reddit-like voting system is necessary too. But you already looked into that I saw somewhere. This rating also should be taking into account with the "what's hot" topic list.

Forum Groups are in development - your opinion?

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:56:49 GMT

Hey Zef, Thanks for joining Blogoforum and for the post! I'm preparing new method for message organization. The idea in short is: let the user to describe a tag or a set of tags, naming it "group" or "forum", thus providing more advanced "get a forum" functionality. Then we can describe a forum on software and recognize a subforum on programming within it, then we can recognize and describe a forum on PHP within it. That's the way to go. I wrote this in a hurry working on actual implementation so the description is a bit chaotic but you have me here willing to answer questions. What do you think about it? - 1 reply