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POP Forums getting sexy

I'm really starting to get excited about POP Forums v8 now. It's finally starting to feel like something I could actually use in production. And the part that gets me most excited is that my goal of making it "hackable" is really coming together, with features that other ASP.NET forums don't have. It truly will be a forum for developers that want to work with look and feel on their own terms.

It's also fun to solve new problems. There are little things I've always wanted to implement that you'll find in the various PHP forums out there, but never really got around to it. That stuff is coming together quickly.

And just a side note, I'm really impressed with the generic List<T> collection. I did some performance tests just adding and iterating and it beats the pants off of ArrayList. I realize that's what is supposed to happen, but the tweak monkey in me had to see for myself!

5 Comments

  • Not to play the &quot;i'm complaining about something that's totally free&quot; person, but is this version 8 going to have any improvements to the Post Entry system? In the current version its a flat out chore to make a post in the forums at uberasp.net (really messes with trying to post code, fonts and colors get out of whack too easy, stuff like that)

  • Define &quot;chore.&quot;

  • Color and fonts are stripped out on purpose, so you aren't seeing anything &quot;quirky&quot; because it's just not there. Less than/greater than is parsed right in v8. The p tag thing is an Internet Explorer thing, whereas Firefox inserts br's. I need to figure out how to trap the enter key in IE (though shift-enter has the desired single-line break effect today).

  • &quot;so you aren't seeing anything &quot;quirky&quot; because it's just not there&quot;



    If you really believe thats true, then i guess its all fixed in your eyes then, no convincing you otherwise

  • What? Dude... this isn't about convincing me of anything. The forum does not, and never had, handled colors or fonts. It's parsed out as leftover HTML. It's just not there.

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