This article was very timely for me, because I've been a long-time Domino
developer (and perhaps rightly-biased), and also because I've begun to dabble a
bit with Drupal lately and the limitations of similar CMSs.
There's a whole world of CMSs out there. I mentioned Drupal, while also Joomla
and Typo3 also have merits.
Compared against wonderful and mostly efficient discussion forums such as
Notes.net, I find all these other boards' discussions 'flat', and hard to read
and navigate. I think discussion forums are extremely valuable knowledge bases,
the value of which extends well beyond the initial plea for help. Notes.net is
an example of such a GUI done right, while all the others are an inefficient
pain and generate inefficient results.
Thanks to this article and thread, now I 'get' the merits of having all
comments within a single page. *Searchability*, ah! Thanks guys! (I blame the
codestore readable gui for misleading me though, because it is so well
implemented.)
Now I wonder, since notes.net seems almost idealic aside from this newly
gleamed omission, I wonder, how can this 'feature' be added?
Couldn't an agent scrape up response and response-to-response docs and compile
such a page? Maybe search could even be redirected to focus on such (new)
pages?
Anyway, that's just me thinking out loud. Nice article and discussion! Food for
thought.
This article was very timely for me, because I've been a long-time Domino developer (and perhaps rightly-biased), and also because I've begun to dabble a bit with Drupal lately and the limitations of similar CMSs.
There's a whole world of CMSs out there. I mentioned Drupal, while also Joomla and Typo3 also have merits.
Compared against wonderful and mostly efficient discussion forums such as Notes.net, I find all these other boards' discussions 'flat', and hard to read and navigate. I think discussion forums are extremely valuable knowledge bases, the value of which extends well beyond the initial plea for help. Notes.net is an example of such a GUI done right, while all the others are an inefficient pain and generate inefficient results.
Thanks to this article and thread, now I 'get' the merits of having all comments within a single page. *Searchability*, ah! Thanks guys! (I blame the codestore readable gui for misleading me though, because it is so well implemented.)
Now I wonder, since notes.net seems almost idealic aside from this newly gleamed omission, I wonder, how can this 'feature' be added?
Couldn't an agent scrape up response and response-to-response docs and compile such a page? Maybe search could even be redirected to focus on such (new) pages?
Anyway, that's just me thinking out loud. Nice article and discussion! Food for thought.