Hello
I've looked on the boards and I haven't found any mention of this, so I thought I'd ask.
Has anyone considered using a board system like YABB or phpBB as a comments back end for MT? Would it be hard?
What I'm envisioning is something like this: the Comments(#) link on a MT post looks the same as it does now (including number of comments), but when you click on it, it takes you to a subtopic in a YABB or phpBB forum specifically devoted to that post.
The advantage of this is that, if you have a blog and a forum, the comments would be integrated into the forum. Users could browse back to the original blog post, but they could also see where they were in the larger forum system. Rather than having to search old blog pages to discover if a debate was still raging in a given post's comments, the front page of the forum system would give an overview of where recent posts were happening.
You'd need to be able to do the following:
- implicitly create the BB subtopic on the creation of the MT post, perhaps using TrackBack
- have an MT tag that read the # of posts in the subtopic associated with the post's title (or ID) by querying the BB system (or database)
- have a way to navigate to the subtopic from the comments link in the MT template
Has anyone done any work on this? What would be the best approach? Is anyone else interested in a plugin, if I do get anywhere with this?
thanks
Ben