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Blogoforum introduces Tag Hierarchy

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:59:54 GMT

After several days and nights of hard working, Blogoforum introduces new way to browse tagged info. Now you can browse the sea of tagged messages hierarchically. - 1 reply

Forum Future Discussion

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:06:49 GMT

Take a look at this insightful discussion on what improvements to add to online forum software. Good idea is - to let member to "bookmark" messages and use this info to show popular pages. Something similar is brewing inside Blogoforum's HQ. [typo fixed] - 2 replies

Ideas on a New Style of Forum by Adrian Lee

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:11:57 GMT

Adrian Lee posted Ideas on a New Style of Forum - interesting article where he raises main problem of today's forums which is message categorization. To resolve it, Adrian suggests to apply tagging. The article seems to have been posted near 2006 April 13, and Adrian predicts the problem of Blogoforum's large tag cloud.

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

Trying out blogoforum

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:55:36 GMT

This looks quite nice, definitely the best tag-based forum I've seen so far. For some reason it still appears to me as a bit messy though, have to figure out what exactly it is that makes it look a bit messy. - 2 replies

How we can have a better forum - part I: what everybody can see

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:42:07 GMT

What can we do to have a better forum? Determine what we can do better, and build it! This is what I'm doing here. Let's take a look at today's forums, identify their problems, and see how we can do a better job. First thing I see which can be improved is forum message categorization. Today's forums have done some effort to let users categorize messages. Which steps are? Today's forums have subforums. Or subgroups. Forum has some superuser, or administrator, which has said that this forum will have this set of subforums. So the user coming to post question sees a list of forums/subforums, or big list of groups/subgroups/subsubgroups. The user decides which category to post the question to. And finally she or he posts. Several problems can be seen here. It can be hard for administrator to define good set of subforums. And it can be hard for the user to determine which subforum to post to. As a result, the visitor may start performing some unwelcomed behavior. She or he starts posting under subforum which administrator think about as inappropriate. Or the visitor copies post into several subforums which everyone think about as inappropriate. But who said the visitor is wrong? What the forum is for? Is the forum for forum admins, or for its visitors? My goal is to develop a self-organizing forum which in ideal will have no need for admins. First step is to give power to define message categories to the visitor. The visitor is always right. So wish me luck, or better give me your feedback and recommendations. Denis Krukovsky. - 3 replies