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• Slash can do much more... (Score:2)

  by alessio (25) on Friday March 15 2002, @09:23AM (#4514) Homepage Journal

  Although most slashsites are organized in a "traditional" way, the Slash engine is very powerful and can be used in very different ways.

  For example, discussions can be standalone and separated from stories: I've created a discussion at http://slashcode.com/comments.pl?sid=1283 [slashcode.com] without any super-power.

  You can arrange "discussions" for each topic and leave them as open forums. I don't think they will expire, or you raise the archival timeframe.

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  • Stand-alone discussions (Score:2)

    by nwyman (2275)

    Do stand-alone discussions, like trolltalk on /., get archived? Do they expire? Are they searchable?

    I've wanted to do forums this way, but I was unsure if they would work.

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    • Re:Stand-alone discussions (Score:2)

      by Krow (986)

      If you turn off expire for them, then they never archive and they never expire.

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      • Re:Stand-alone discussions (Score:2)

        by tf23 (175)

        But that's global, right? (constant var)
        
        So there's no way to selectively mark stories set to expire, but discussion are not, or seletively per discussion... etc etc w/o either changing the schema or writing a task to constantly re-open X based on criteria Y.
        
        

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        • Re:Stand-alone discussions (Score:2)

          by Krow (986)

          Yes and no. You could set archive to zero and then do it by hand. Right now that would be through the SQL interface.
          
          Want to write a discussions editor :)
          This could easily be done in there.

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        • Re:Stand-alone discussions (Score:2)

          by nwyman (2275)

          This is the problem I ran into - setting the archive_delay to something big is not an elegant solution.

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          • Re:Stand-alone discussions (Score:2)

            by Krow (986)

            I am not sure when this was added, but setting it to zero should turn it off.

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