ErikH2000
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I would like for there to be an easy way to place a "discuss" link at the bottom of any page on the site. If you click on the link it would take you to a topic for discussion of the page you are looking at. If no topic exists, a new one would be created. Maybe the link is something like:

www.drod.net/forum/discusspage.php?BoardID=9&Subject="Architect's Toolkit #3: Don't Fear Anyone Edit" by Chris Marks

Eh... the subject value needs URL-encoding, but you get my gist.

Perhaps, it is better to show the number of replies already made in order to entice people to go read them. (Like we do with news articles.) In that case, we could have a PHP file containing a function that gets included into the page, and then a function call like...

OutputDiscussLink(9, """Architect's Toolkit #3: Don't Fear Anyone Edit"" by Chris Marks" ) ;

Hmm. I should be quiet about how to implement it, since Schik's going to have the same or better ideas if he decides to do it. Anyhow, I thought about this when reading Chris' article. If you write something that goes on the website, it's nice to have people talking about it. The discuss link makes site pages more interesting for viewer, but more importantly, it adds incentive for people to author something for the website.

BTW, DiMono's article is quite nice--it focuses on one aspect of architecture that deserves a little exploration. It's not obvious to a newcomer what all the ramifications of editing privileges are, so I was happy to see this article.

-Erik


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I was actually a little confused that this was AT #3, to tell you the truth, because when I submitted it I was told it would be number 4 after someone else's article.

I agree with the idea though, as it would give an open forum to discuss whatever has been written. I think we'd probably want it to reside in the Architecture forum, for the AT articles, though.

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I was planning on writing one, I got all excited about it and wrote a few paragraphs, and then 5 million things in real life came crashing down on me and I never got around to finishing it. Matt hasn't bugged me about it since and so it will languish for a while, I imagine. Sorry 'bout that.

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ErikH2000 wrote:
I would like for there to be an easy way to place a "discuss" link at the bottom of any page on the site. If you click on the link it would take you to a topic for discussion of the page you are looking at. If no topic exists, a new one would be created.

Yeah, we talked about this a long time ago. I'll keep it in mind and think about a good way to do it.

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Seems to me a simple way to do this would be to start the thread manually, and then just put a link to it on the bottom of the page. admin could make a post with a brief summary of the article, and then ti's just a simple link.

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Oneiromancer wrote:
I was planning on writing one, I got all excited about it and wrote a few paragraphs, and then 5 million things in real life came crashing down on me and I never got around to finishing it. Matt hasn't bugged me about it since and so it will languish for a while, I imagine. Sorry 'bout that.

You did say you might have some distractions, and to be quite honest we both had some distractions. I can't fault you either. Take as long as you need.

Just saying again, feel free to write an Architect's Toolkit. I don't have a buffer any more.

Matt

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Mattcrampy wrote:
Just saying again, feel free to write an Architect's Toolkit. I don't have a buffer any more.

If a time arises that you feel would be a good time to put up another toolkit, but you don't have any, just let me know and I'll toss another one together. That might be the most awkward sentence I've ever written...

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