passingnotes

uh, i’m using a treo to view many blogs that are fully css and having no problems without a hack..am i missing something?

sorry – just realized how that works! shoulda clicked all the way through. really brilliant. would you be willing to share the how-to?
-me

i’ve been wrestling with the same thing – actually using wp comments specific to articles (with no site registration for WP on the site, only authors login) and using phpbb for forum support for all areas of inquiry…thinking of adding a little button next to ‘comments’ that says ‘or discuss this’ – for high volume like macrumors, it definitely makes sense, like the way the designs are integrated as well..for others, not so sure. kind of depends on nature of users (e.g. opine versus debate…)

any idea if such access rights would be automatically inherited if an author level1 is using a tool like w.bloggar or ecto? (e.g. when they view categories, they still only see same ones) – i’m not that fluent in this, nor do i know if somebody has tried it this way…
thanks in advance.
-dave

i was looking at this exact same issue/idea using wp and phpbb but based on workflow and user/reader habits, opted to keep comments inside the wp site, and instead have a great developer who is using phpbb’s topics anywhere to run the most recent forums right to the main screen on wp
the desired effect is similar – readers of the wp site are at ALL times aware that forums exist (there’s even another box he’s putting up with shortcuts to search forums, register, etc) BUT the comments stay inline on an ongoing basis with each and every article entry – if you start feeding all content to the forums, they’ll become stuffed daily with postings (depending on volume) which are never commented on…
additionally, the big workflow item for me (the decision maker point) – the forums are in fact coppa compliant (children’s online privacy and protection act) and require two step activation for new accounts (signup with basic info, then confirm via email, then log in) – nobody will take those steps just to comment (possibly) regarding a posting on a WP site that will then wind up buried inside forums…just my opinion….
the developer i’m workign with had no concerns that he could hack the ‘comments’ to open into phpbb, what turned me off from the idea is exactly what i’ve described above.
comments on articles are, by their nature, impulsive, reactive, and ephemeral (in composition), versus forums, where many threads have the potential to intensify and so (in phpbb) remain at the top of the forum..