Project ProBlogs

[Andrew.McGivery]

Well, my bordem has finally pushed me to the limit

I have decided to attempt to make a proboards blog system using just javascript. (no php or mysql )

Gunna make it admin editible and all that fun stuff.

Any suggestions for what you'd want to see in a blog system?

[ForumPromotion.net]

A commenting system so users can post comments and reply to blog posts.

[Trill]

I don't know how you're going to structure the site, but if the latest X posts are available on the home screen, that'd be nice.

Were you thinking of it being a one-person blog site, or would there be one board per blogger, or just a sole board hosting everything? I'm curious about how you're structuring this. I was working on an 'advanced' admin panel for PB which was basically a complete front-end rewrite of the current admin panel which was actually placed in a board rather than replacing the actual admin panel page. Never got around to finishing it, though. It even had a "Page" feature that allowed admins to automatically create pages on the forum from scratch or from 3 templates. I got that part partially working, but was buggy with editing the pages once created.

[Thesealion]

When i was looking into doing this i was going to make it so that the resent posts page was the home page...i never got to thinking through how to do comments though

[Trill]

From the Recent Post page you could have had the "Link to Post" area link to the parent board which was structured w/ JS to have a copy of the OP (or blog post) on the side or separated from the comments (replies to the thread). Move the quick reply up to the top above all the other replies/comments for easy commenting.

[Malagrond]

This is how I envision it working:

Use threads as blog post summaries.
Use the thread summary (built into the thread link) as the blog post with a link to read more.
Have comments be posts visible on the thread (the "read more" page).
If for a single user: Have the main page re-direct to the appropriate board.
Else: Each user gets their own board.

[Andrew.McGivery]

Basically how it is looking now is there ca be as many blogs as the admin wants. There will be a page(actually a board) that has a list of all blogs and their most recent entry title. The subboards of this board are the actual blogs, where each thread is a post for a blog.

On the thread list page, it will work much like malagrond said, where the "description" will show, with a link to "read more". The actual entries will be normal threads, possible with some remodeling to make it look more Blog post and Comment like

And I am making it almost effortless to install and use. User pastes code into global footer, and then in their admin pannel a new section called "blogs" appears, with only one like: Install. Basically they just keep clicking continue on masked pages, and then they are put back to the admin pannel where it says blogs has been installed.

Now, under the blog section, there are new links including one to uninstall blogs

I'd say more, but I gotta go to work. Maybe will update this later today.