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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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A bug in quote-character conversion.
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By haflinger , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Mar 12, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Scoop, when taking input, converts typed quotes into " characters. However, it appears to do it at the point of storage, rather than when outputting the data- this is quicker, but leads to a slight problem in some cases.
(3 comments, 159 words in story) Full Story >>
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Diary Subscriptions now in Beta on this site
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By hillct , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Mar 12, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Due to the overwhelming response to comments about diary subscriptions, I was inspired ot get off my ass and write up the feature. My implementation was inspired by the excellant work of dannygene on his first scoop patch, with help of Defect and others in initial testing & debugging.
You'll find a 'subscribe' link next to each author's name on stories. Make sure you have enabled the 'Flexible Hotlist Box' in your scoop.k5 display preferences, and you'll see a link at the top to specify the 'Diaries' view of your hotlist. Check it out. Let me know what you think.
Update [2002-3-13 14:29:27 by hillct]: I have modified the behavior of the 'Stories' view of hotlist_flex such that diaries belonging to the logged in user are not listed there any longer. It seemed useful to have them listed there since they were material written by the current user, and that is what that view was intended for, but I am not a heavy user of diaries and I understand from a few who have voiced their opinion, that listing diaries in this view would make for a vary large list vary quickly, with limited benefit. Let me know if the new behavior is better or worse.
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Proposal: Weighted average comment sorting option
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By haflinger , Section Code []
Posted on Mon Mar 11, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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There is a tendency for comments which have been rated only by one or two people to have extreme ratings. This proposal suggests a way to prevent comments from being ranked either very high or very low until they've had a certain minimum number of ratings.
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Radio Free Tomorrow
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By UncleMikey , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Mon Mar 11, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I'm pleased to announce that Radio Free Tomorrow, a Scoop site dedicated to science fiction and fantasy of any era, in any medium, is now open for business.
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Color Customization
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By johnnyc , Section Help! []
Posted on Mon Mar 11, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I've installed scoop and not having much trouble with it. Most of the admin tools are farily easy to use and the Admin guide really helps. My question concerns customization of the colours, and annoying problem I've got with link colours.
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ExperimentBank - Creative science
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By egarland , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Mon Mar 11, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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ExperimentBank is a site for the free exchange, review and discussion of novel scientific experiments. The purpose of this site is to encourage communication and creativity within the scientific community, by allowing anyone to submit ideas for experiments for peer review and comment.
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Installation Help!!
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By diwolf , Section Help! []
Posted on Mon Mar 04, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I've tried and tried and tried. I've narrowed down the problems. I'm at a loss as to what I've missed.
Here's the scoop.. When I comment out (in startup.pl) the following lines, EVERYTHING loads up, apache works, etc.. BUT, the site doesn't work (for obvious reasons). When I uncomment the same lines, Apache loads and the promptly dies.
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