Re: PHP.net Website Problem: age of posts

On 17 January 2013 18:14, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mike Griffiths <mgriffiths@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> On 17 January 2013 17:47, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Mike Griffiths <mgriffiths@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> I agree, there are lots of instances where this is a very bad idea, >>>> especially when you consider the number of user notes which seem to be >>>> replies to other notes but not referenced as such. >>>> >>> >>> PHP user contributed notes is not a forum or a discussion board. Notes >>> that reply to other notes for the sake of dialogue is normally discouraged >>> and should not be standard by which we display our notes. >>> >> >> No, I agree. But that does not mean that there are not any useful notes >> that are replies. Discouraging discussion board behaviour is important >> though, so maybe you're right. >> >> I appreciate that a sort feature may be difficult to implement in an aged >> system, thought I would suggest it any way - I'm not as up to speed with >> the code behind the user notes as others. >> >> > > Yes, that has been on my list of things to do (along with 20 other things > we still haven't put into production yet) from the beginning when I started > down this venture many many months ago. > > The problem is the system is very fragile the way that it's been neglected > for so many years. So it's very hard to introduce new features to it > without the potential for breaking 45 other things. That's mostly why > progress is very slow on this front. > > We definitely want something better so a hack just won't cut it for me > right now. That's why I'll need to refactor the approach before push any > more changes. > That makes perfect sense. I, for one, appreciate the work. Mike