Forum improvements

[Alexey Rashevskiy]

Hi, I think this post more addressed to Matt.

I don't know does this "Ning network" allows plug-ins or something like that but imho it will be nice to add at least 2 features:

1) forum categories. To split Marketing, events and coding to different forums.

2) Add syntax highlighting. At least for C, Obj C, xml (other languages will be cool but not necessary).

So is it possible (does engine of Ning allows that?).

Cheers!


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[Paul Reilly]

I agree. It would be great to make XCake more technical, with code snippets, wiki etc.
I don't care who is friends with who, or who commented on what. IMHO we need to increase the signal to noise ratio on the next site. Ning is closing free accounts, so we should consider what we want out of this community, and build it in to our new site. Matt previously had a Wiki (mediawiki?) which was good in that it had technical info, but it was not that easy to use. We need something easy and user friendly, with WYSIWYG text input. I have found just Wordpress with a google code syntaxing plugin works well.

[Alexey Rashevskiy]

Yeah, WP with several plug-ins will be enough. I can offer my help if it will be necessary (I'm not a web expert, but I can launch, configure and customize WP).
It will be great if people will be able to authorize with their google accounts too...