Comments on: A blog/message board hybrid?

Question: A blog/message board hybrid?

mrkohrea — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:26:28 -0800

Which software acts like a blog/message board hybrid?

So one problem that I see with blogs is that comments on old blog posts don't get read by site browsers. I think the problem would easily be solved by blog software that has a button like "view new comments" or something like that. (No RSS solutions please.)

I guess another alternative would be to have a message board with only one authorized author. But then the message board would need a plugin to make it look more bloglike.

Any suggested blog software with appropriate plugin? Or message board with appropriate plugin? Or whatever you might call it that somebody else has already thought of?

It seems to me that I can't be the first person who has thought of this, but I guess the assumption is that old blog posts quickly lose their time relevance.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:33:38 -0800

I think Vanilla can do this...

By: knave

knave — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:48:58 -0800

You might be interested in finding out what software powers The Daily WTF, because he is clearly using some kind of forum software under the hood.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:54:09 -0800

Blogware does this I think. I've seen Blogware-based blogs that have a list of recent comments up the side. (specifically, http://accordionguy.blogware.com/)

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:56:14 -0800

ExpressionEngine intergrates it's blog and message board to an extent.

However, it'll cost ya ($100 for personal licences, $250 for commercial PLUS $99 for forum module.)

An example of it in action can be found on their site (click the continue button in the first forum post to be taken to the blog).

By: JakeWalker

JakeWalker — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:39:51 -0800

Vanilla just posted info on combining it and Wordpress.

By: anildash

anildash — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:00:08 -0800

Movable Type (disclaimer, i work with the team) can easily let you add a "most recent comments" widget to your sidebar, or if you're hell-bent on having a blog that looks like a forum, there's a template for that as well.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:03:42 -0800

Both of the biggies, Movable Type and Wordpress, can show recent comments on the front page or wherever you want. In MT, it's really just a matter of dropping in the right template code; in WP, I believe there are plugins for this (you could also write the appropriate WP tags into your theme, but that seems like more fooling around).

By: jeanmari

jeanmari — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:16:37 -0800

We use Vanilla for our blog/forum/profile site.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:06:23 -0800

Scoop?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:27:22 -0800

Mefi Clones.