SE Future...

[Webby]

So you don't need my help.......not even for the Dutch.lng......ok then......

[Paul Stoffregen]

Here's another proposal.  I know this would be far too much to put into the almost-ready 1.3.... but the topic is "Future SE...", maybe 1.4 or later ??

Yahoo Groups has a feature where users can participate using the web site or by receiving the messages as email and replying to them.  YaBB, UBB, Vb (and most others) are web-only, with one-way email notifications.  There's a number of conventional mail list packages (eg. GNU Mailman, Geocrawler), but their web-interface is usually a read-only archive.  Yahoo has done a really nice job of blending the two together to make a forum that appeals to both types of people.

A lot of users really like the Yahoo Groups email feature because they use it at their workplace.  A web browsers with a colorful YaBB forum feels like "goofing off" (and attracts attention from coworkers), but text-only messages in the normal email program appear like normal "work".  Also, a lot of companies have draconian policies about web usages, and proxy servers to enforce them (big brother is watching).

There's a mod for Y1G-SP1 called "Notify Plus 2.2" which puts the message text into the email, and it even lets the user choose plain text or html.  To make this crazy idea work, there probably would need to be a per-board setting for the "From:" address someone in the admin settings.  There'd also need to be a separate program that would receive the incoming emails from sendmail/procmail (or whatever is used on windows servers) and post them into the board somehow (figure out which topic by parsing the subject line, etc).

Anyway, there's the idea, maybe for a future YaBB SE.  It is a feature that really works well for YG and encourgages more people to contribute to the forum.

[Jeff Lewis]

And the replies to the emails are entered as posts into the board? (In the Y1G MOD)

[Paul Stoffregen]

Unfortuntely not.  Notify Plus only changes the outgoing notify email to have the message that was posted.  It adds a choice of receiving all messages as plain text, or html (which looks very similar to the web site)

Notify Plus does have an option to "subscribe" to each board, so you automatically get notifies for all new topics in whatever boards you've subscribed.

Maybe I could take a shot at this program to receive the replies from sendmail and post them?  I've never touched PHP, but I've heard it's pretty easy to learn if you know C and Perl (which I've been using for years).

[kurgan]

lsoft's listserv works like this but the web part is not really a board, but merely an archive with posting options.

although I have messed a lot with it its hard to make it look good.

you can see an example here:

http://animation.ots.dk/listserv/archives/

[iamdamnsam]

Where is the new version.  This is driving me nuts!

[rican5vl]

Patience!

Ooh and Jeff did you get my message?

Rican

[Shoeb Omar]

Where is the new version.  This is driving me nuts!

patience - its being heavily beta tested andthe crash put us behind a bit

[Jeff Lewis]

Ooh and Jeff did you get my message?

Yes but I am off work today and my computer has been down for the last few days at home...until now!

[kurgan]

Unfortuntely not.  Notify Plus only changes the outgoing notify email to have the message that was posted.  It adds a choice of receiving all messages as plain text, or html (which looks very similar to the web site)

Notify Plus does have an option to "subscribe" to each board, so you automatically get notifies for all new topics in whatever boards you've subscribed.

Maybe I could take a shot at this program to receive the replies from sendmail and post them?  I've never touched PHP, but I've heard it's pretty easy to learn if you know C and Perl (which I've been using for years).

At leat on unix this should be 'fairly' easy to do, by modifying the /etc/aliases list to pipe incoming mail on a specific address to an application, that will the disect the mail and enter it into the database, it could probably be an awk/mysql script

[Greybrow]

future hm?

• will langpacks be so easy to make like in sp1?
• What about all those "nice & shiny" buttons I hate? Maybe themes packs?
• When will be the next bugfix released?

[Jeff Lewis]

Greybrow, langpacks function the same was as SP1.  Next bugfix?  You mean 1.3?  Soon.

[kurgan]

cant wait!!!

you are teasing us!!! v  

[Golden Tiger]

This is the new YaBB PBS system.  The next exciting episode, YaBB 1.3.0, will be shown right after we (YaBB PBS) raise $1,000.  Operators are standing by...  Your pledge will allow the next version to come along and will get you some suprising gifts such as a stuffed YaBB toy.  Also, we are going to sit here until we get $1,000 just delaying our release while we continue to ask for more money!  Once again, YaBB 1.3.0 will be released when...  (and so on)

[Note: If you believe the above, you are just plain silly.  The above is intended to be a joke, not as an insult.  My true feelings in this matter are that the dev team should be left alone so they can finish the next version faster.  But, I am good at making jokes, so I decided to make that one.  Please don't send me hate mail about this...]

[John R]

Yes, folks, all your donations to the New YaBB PBS System will be devoted to helping feed those poor starving SE developers so they can continue to code, as long as their strength lasts, so that V 1.3.0 can finally be released.  

Please remember, operators are standing by to accept your donations........

cheers..........