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Maddus Mattus said:

wisemx said:

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Nope, same view. They don't get it,.. I want a forum style view, not a stupid tree.

Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

• Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
• Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
• Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

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wisemx said:

Maddus Mattus said:

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Come on man...Did you read this part?

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Okay you've hooked me and I'm excited, how can I help?

There are a couple ways for you to contribute to the project.

• Tell us what we're doing right or wrong. Feel free to give us your feedback using the Discussions tab and let us know if this would be an useful tool for you, or if you think we're heading in the complete wrong direction.
• Tell us what you would do! If you have other great ideas on features that we should consider you can either create a discussion in the Discussions area, or create a work item in the Issue Tracker for people to vote on.
• Put your code editor where your mouth is. Eventually we're going to have to actually write the code for this thing. When we get to that point we will have plenty of opportunities for you to contribute to the project in a tangible way and to help implement features.

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Maddus Mattus said:

wisemx said:

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Yeah, yeah,.. you are right,..

but I am way too lazy

I code 8 hours a day for a living, so when I get home I like some time off.

I coded a tool like this 2 years ago. At the company I worked with we used Exchange as a forum. I got fed up with the email bombardment, so I wrote my own tool that did exactly what I want.

Maybe I will create a custom view, put my code editor where my mouth is,..

edit; downloading as we speak,..

wisemx said:

Maddus Mattus said:

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oh man,.... this tool needs a lot of work

blowdart said:

Maddus Mattus said:

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OK but remember what it is replacing. NNTP. There's been a big move away from newsgroups (which you can't control) to forums, which you can, and you can put ads on. So a tree view is essential to keep those old f@rts (MVPs *grin*) vaguely happy.

If I get in, I am going to nuke the treeview.

Maybe I can steal the channel 9 idea, "in response to". So that the old farts like you can still imagine a treeview in their head.

blowdart said:

Maddus Mattus said:

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I doubt if they'd let you nuke it (because it's addressing a lot of the complaints about the forums, like no threaded tree view); what's wrong with having TWO views that you can switch between?

Well,...

I dunno,...

Nothing I guess,...

Maddus Mattus said:

blowdart said:

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Well,...

I dunno,...

Nothing I guess,...

BlackTiger said:

Maddus Mattus said:

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Who needs a client to worthless forum?..

JKelley said:

I know this is a week old, but I've been on vacation for a few days.    I'm glad you found this, it's the project that my team is working on.

A couple comments:

a) For those who don't like the threaded tree view, you're not alone.  We have plans in the spec to enable flat and hybrid views in the client, but for the majority of the people who we are trying to help with this, the threaded view was the first priority.  The other views will come along as we get farther in to the project.

b) What we've released so far is just a CTP, basically we released a version that was the project at the end of the first sprint of work.  Lots more functionality will be coming!

c) While we don't have plans to add C9 directly in our current project plan, I've tried to make the devs keep in mind the idea of supporting other forums that offer a webservice API to allow someone to integrate whatever forums they like.

d) Since the code is available, if you want to make your own version of the tool that would be very cool!  We do want people to contribute to the core project, but if you just want to take it and make your own version there's nothing stopping you.

-Jeremy

blowdart said:

Dr Herbie said:

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That's one of the things I asked for (or rather shouted loudly about). I want it integrated into desktop search damnit (and there's a feature request on codeplex for it; go vote!)

Apparently it's low impact