Forum OpenACS Development: Response to What we telll other users about you

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Posted by Talli Somekh on
I think everyone is right here, with Lars' point being the most right on but Carl's ultimately being the vision that the OACS should be striving for.

When I try to tell people about what community software is, I use Amazon.com's functionality (which is actually a suggesion of Philip's). I would not be surprised if Amazon's db servers have as much if not more user contributed content as editorial content. More than once I've ended up purchasing a book that I learned about from an entirely unrelated review of another book. This was because I was able to follow a trail of user contributed content.

This functionality is, of course, the same that exists at photo.net and at here. The problem, as Simon says, is that in oacs4 it's total crap.

Perhaps this should be another item that use-case experts should take on as a design task?

talli