Threads as objects?

[Troy Roberts]

There are many places on my site where I would like to be able to point to a thread to further discuss the item. I don't always want that thread to be part of a forum that can be browsed though.

This could be useful in situations where I want people to go to an html page to read news for example, but I want to have links to discuss each topic. I don't want the user to go to the forum and browse.

I might also want to integrate this with classified ads. I would like to be able to have a regular classified ads application (with notification features, etc...) that ties into threads. It would be cool if a thread could be started as part of every new placement of an ad without having the threads be in a browsable forum (except maybe by moderators for keeping an eye on things).

So I guess there would have to be some code that I could integrate into an existing application that would cause a thread to be created.

There are many other potential applications for this type of technology on a website.

[mcncyo]

I think There is a hack that does most of this, but it does display on the forums and it dosn't create one automaicly. I might be working on this hack when 2.0 comes out, but this isn't the only thing i am programing. I am also trying to change the privite message, that will be include in 2.0, into a webmail system.

[Troy Roberts]

Cool. I think that there would be a lot of applications of this.

I'm curious about the webmail. I'm going to have to go ahead with EMUmail (my hosting service offers it with support) since I want to get moving on it.

I hope that some day Jelsoft offers a fully integrated webmail program. I also hope that I will be able to import mail accounts form EMUmail.

I was at Internet World in NYC last week. There were quite a few companies trying to offer full community software programs. Not one of them had a halfway acceptible forum. There is a big opportunity for Jelsoft. Go for it guys! :)

[Mas*Mind]

This is an option I also had in mind...If vB supports a variable to let a message be displayed separate you can even build a news system with it...:

On the frontpage you'll have the first message and optional the replies on another...

Or you can specify the template in the URL so you can build a list of headlines on a certain page who will link to the specified message...So it'll look something like this:

forumdisplay.php&forumid=4&tpl=bla

which will produce the headlines who will point to:

showthread.php?postid=345&standalone=true

or something like that :)