First off, just to help Danny get up to speed, Super Blog is an attempt to get a blog to be a forum without any core hacks.

Right, now you know as much as we do here's my thoughts :-

We need a way of differentiating between forum blog(s) and normal blogs, so far I'm going along the lines of :-

• Each forum = seperate blog
• Stubfile = superblog.php (or whatever)
• tagline = forum name
• long desc = form description
• full name = forum group
• Shortname = "forum"

My thinking is - if we use seperate blogs for each forum, then we can assign group permissions (in bo) which enables us to have "anybody", "members only", "staff only" etc, which is a major forum feature. I'm also considering making all posts protected, which will keep them out of the all blog (which I know we don't use here). If I did this then I'd create a pseudo login for "guests". I thought about using categories for the forums but then we'd have to piss about trying to hack in descriptions and all the permissions stuff.

I still need to work a way to make "posting" easy (ie, from front page with no choice of blog/cat [would be current blog]), and of course we'd need to enable plugins for comments (smilies, bbcode, code etc)

Ideally I'd like to make this a set of plugins, but I think the reality is that it's much easier to make an uber custom skin, but we'll see

Anyway, if either of you have any thoughts on the matter just let me know

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