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A thought just crossed my mind and I want to get your pulse on this.

I know at least with the GL forum you can convert your stories to a forum topic and still leave the story (or delete the story). I think rather than have the current comments what I would rather see is the ability to automatically create / start a topic in the forum when a story is created and just use the forum for the comment engine. Then you just point the Add/Read Comments to the Forum for that story.

I think that would really streamline everything.
Does that make since?

What do you think?

Not exactly a novel idea ...

And to blur the lines even further, I'm currently experimenting with making the comment posts look like forum posts over at geeklog.info.

bye, Dirk

Hmmm, I guess great minds think alike.

is that ( what we see at geeklog.info ) available for use ?? will it be a plugin ... or some code alterations/re-editing ?

The modified look over at geeklog.info is mostly done in the comment template files, plus a few modifications in the code (mostly missing variables). The only bigger change is that I had to implement a way to restrict the user photo to a max. width.

So currently, this requires the current CVS version. I can put the actual templates up for download somewhere, if anyone's interested.

bye, Dirk

Dirk, nice look.
However, what do you intend, if anything, about the indent on threads that go very deep? You might end up with a squished comment way over on the right. I can't think of anything myself so not much help there.

First of all: It's an experiment and won't make it into the release anyway.

I guess you can run into the same indentation problem in the comments now as well (in "nested" mode). And, no, I don't have any good ideas for this either ...

bye, Dirk