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What is Scoop
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Scoop is a "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a
content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog.
Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a community. It empowers
your visitors to be the producers of the site, contributing news and discussion,
and making sure that the signal remains high.
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Check out what other people have done with Scoop.
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New Scoop Sites
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rudepeople.com in need of a makeover
950 comments, 0 new
by rudedude, Announcements
New Music Site ... in Scoop
991 comments, 0 new
by MightyD, Announcements
Trees and Things is Coming Out
743 comments, 0 new
by 3fingerspointback, Announcements
TalkLeft Moves to Scoop
636 comments, 0 new
by TalkLeft, Announcements
SciScoop Science Forum
518 comments, 0 new
by sciencebase, Announcements
New Site: "Field Gulls" Unofficial Seattle Seahawks Blog
514 comments, 0 new
by Paul Shrug, Announcements
More New Scoop Sites...
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Where can I get Scoop
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You can download the latest release tarball: scoop_1.1.8.tar.gz
You can grab the nightly build. Note: This is generated automatically from the current CVS, and may not be reliable! Get that here: scoop-1.1-nightly.tar.gz
The developers strongly recommend CVS as the primary way to obtain Scoop, since releases tend to have pretty long delays between them. If you have CVS installed, do the following:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop co scoop
The above is two commands; each one must be on a single line. When prompted for a password for anonymous, enter 'anonymous' (without the quotes). For more CVS info, "Open Source Development with CVS" is an excellent online reference.
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Where can I get help
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There are several sources of information and support for Scoop. The first place to look is the scoop-help mailing list. You can browse the archives, or join the list. If you want to post a question, joining the list is strongly recommended. You can also join the #scoop IRC channel on SlashNET.
For documentation, there is the (largely complete) Scoop administrator's guide. You can also read the current
README and
INSTALL files, from Scoop WebCVS (username and password are both "anonymous"). The admin guide is also included with Scoop, in the doc/ directory.
If you have new feature ideas or requests, or descriptions of something you're working on for Scoop, this site is the place to submit them. You can also search this site for information. If you want to get your hands dirty, or have any questions about developing for Scoop, there is also the Scoop-dev list. You can browse the archives, or join the list.
Bug reports and patches should be filed on the Scoop Bug Muncher.
If you have any problems with this site or your user account, e-mail the Admin
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Forum-only Scoop?
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By fluffy grue , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue May 28, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I like having forums on a site. But I don't like any of the current forum software offerings, all of which have crappy (or nonexistent) threading and insist on doing their own "formatting code" which is a horrible, redundant abstraction on top of HTML.
I also really like Scoop's comment system. It has the best threading, posting, security, and moderation capabilities of anything out there. However, the Scoop "news portal" setup isn't the best way for many websites which benefit from forums (for example, webcomics).
Hey, that gives me an idea...
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Per-Section Polls
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By Phantros , Section Help! []
Posted on Sun May 26, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I'm looking for a way to associate a separate poll with each section/subsection...
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One year ago today...
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By ramses0 , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue May 14, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Some pretty good stories have appeared throughout K5's history, and K5 is in the unique position of having good content, and old content, and good old content. It probably wouldn't be difficult to set up a "one year ago today" box that duplicates the front page from some time ago.
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A mysql bug in the nightly build...
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By Phantros , Section Help! []
Posted on Sat May 11, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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After an embarrassingly long time of trying to install the nightly build of scoop (I'd rather not say just how long ;), something occurred to me: This time, it might not be just my newbieness at fault.
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How to Scale Better
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By fluffy grue , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sat May 11, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Or: How to keep "The Thread That Wouldn't Die" from crashing Kuro5hin and certain browsers without crufty pagination hacks.
Oh, and Adequacy's famous Linux article, while we're at it.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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By skloogs , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Thu May 09, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Yes, finally I'm starting my Scoop! too...
This one is about Rio de Janeiro and Brazil in general, but I plan to have discussions about various topics too, maybe more focused on (but not limited to!) the Brazilian community.
Don't complain the scoop! there is a little empty, as I told you it's just starting, and I (approximately) finished the design this week.
Feel free to visit and comment, it's there for that purpose!
So long!
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Better Section List
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By tneff , Section Code []
Posted on Wed May 08, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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One thing I didn't like about the default Scoop distribution was that the section links in the header (block section_links) was just a hard-coded list of HREF's that you have to remember to edit every time you add, remove or change a section -- and it stays static for every visitor, regardless of whether they have the privilege to see all the sections listed. So I fixed it...
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