Hello LQ users,

I was sitting at my pc watching new threads of LQ from my rss feeder and checking my mail to see the replies from the ones that I subscribed when I got hit in the head from something. I fell unconcious but when I woke up I realized that the thing that hit me was called "idea".

What is this all about? Many people here dedicate hours on this site, posting, replyin' etc. Most of them are getting tired of refreshing their web browser, checking the rss and their mail. A solution for this would be a project where programers (from LQ ofcourse, I believe many people here have great knowledge on programming) will create an application were it would log the user to the LQ and through that the user can edit his personal settings, browse the forums, post new threads and be informed of replies from subscribed threads.

I don't think it's extremely hard to do this but there would be a conflict of who can use this. At first I thought of only the contributing members coud use it but since it's open source we are talking here about many people would disagree(even though I think it's a good benefit for someone that has contributed), I thought of non contributing members could use it but with ads poped on the free space of the app.

I would like to know the opinion of other LQ members about this, if they think that this will work and ofcourse if it will found people to work on it.

But ofcourse even if everyone agreed we need absolutely one person's permission.

Jeremy, what do you think?

Vangelis

What would this application accomplish that the site already doesn't? LQ is already very useable, and jeremy and the mods are working on an exciting new release of LQ (pretty much a complete overhaul from how it sounds) I know most of us can't wait to use. I don't wish to completely rain on your parade, but this just doesn't sound all that useful.

/me crack open the umbrellla he just stole from scuzzman who didn't seem to be using it

Yes, I suggested something like this before, but it doesn't seem to be at all feasible.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=310778

What would this "application" gain you above using your browser would be my main question?

--jeremy

My guess would be, you don't have to have the browser always open. You'd have a little application running, kind of like a weather feed that tells you the current temperature but with this one, keeps you updated on threads your subscribed to, threads you've replied to, etc.

In my opinion, I don't really see the advantage of this. Once you see the updates and you decided to reply or whatever, it's going to require you to launch a browser and login to the site.

Perhaps instead of actually coding an application, you could have it so members can customize their own RSS feeds of what they want fed to them, then they could use one of the many applications out there for RSS feeds.

For one thing, I think a "LQ Reader" is more feasible. One that provides the full forum capabilities would not be feasible.

I guess the RSS feeds are nice, but I think there are no summaries for the feeds. I suggested it before, I think summaries or "short" snippets for each new feed entry (post) would be as good.

Would it be too bandwidth consuming?

Some of this will be possible when the new forums go live

--jeremy

Ok i was talking about the LQ app but since I saw the NEW LQ I suppose this thread should be considered as closed

LQ now is pluckin good! it's ultra user friendly