Actually Tom, I quite like scoop. It is clean, no bells and whistles and is very useful for keeping track of authors, your own comments, and researching others stories and file pics.
It is a double edged sword though, trying to write up a project has become hell purely because the pics get randomised, otherwise scoop is the better forum software I have come into contact with. The others offer plenty of eye candy, but none of the archiving that scoop does.
An example is say Backshed, lovely looking software, easy to upload a story with pics, but I can't find a list of stories or comments that I have made previously. I can't find uploaded files.... unless I go through all the prior posts... I can't see what some other author has written... no... scoop has plenty of excellent points..... except this pics nonsense.
If you could upload pics into s story via browse and paste directly into the story, and a copy sent to files then it would be very useable.
I had reloaded a new linux some time back, and had not loaded Konversation. I will try and get myself familiar with the IRC protcols again, and find you at IRC in the near future.
............oztulesFlinders Island Australia[ Parent ]
You can use the backshed's forums search button to find stories by author. Just type in the forum members username ( or part thereof ) and select to search in username option. Also you can browse the member list and find their stories that way. It does treat files differently to Scoop. Each uploaded file has a date stampe added to the file name, making it unique, eg one of your files was renamed to 2008-08-02_184615_innerskid.jpg. If its an image, the software then resizes it to 500 pixels wide. Unfortunately there is no "user file's" page as such, as you said, though this is something I could add in the future if there's enough interrest in it.
Glenn [ Parent ]
Search engines are fine, but you need to have something to search for. The interesting things just seem to crop up. Google search of here or backshed will achieve the same result, but with scoop I can go and see all the projects of say jacquesm or zubbly or a host of other talented builders.... just to get ideas, rather than research a topic.
Not knocking, just pointing out the salient differences for me.
........oztules
or is there a way to do it, but I just haven't found it.Flinders Island Australia[ Parent ]
