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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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Automatically add a "none of the above" option to polls
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By mrBlond , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue Jul 17, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I'm a poll junky, but I hate the lack of "none of the above" options. It would be nice if scoop sites could choose to automatically add such an option to all polls. Authors should of course be able to disable it.
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Simple "turn off" options
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By boxed , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Jul 16, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I would like to have an option to hide the column at the left with the titles of all stories, same thing with the one on the right and the "who's online" thing.
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Feature Request: New Replies box?
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By larsdahl , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Jul 12, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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One thing I've noticed as I've posted more and more on Scoop sites is the difficulty in tracking new replies to comments, particularly your older posts. As you get some comment history behind you, it begins to be quite difficult to notice changes in the number of replies you've had to given comments. I feel that a New Replies box would overcome this difficulty nicely.
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More on section perms...
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By janra , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Jul 09, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Now that section perms are available, I thought of another one which would make one scoop setup I'm working on a lot easier: an auto_post permission
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Who's Online Box
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By panner , Section Code []
Posted on Thu Jul 05, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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For anyone that wants such a thing (and you know you do!), here's a box that displays who's currently online. Note that it's not 100% accurate or anything, it just makes the assumption that anyone thats done something in the last 30 minutes it online.
Update [2001-7-5 17:50:30 by panner]: The box has been updated. See here.
Update [2001-7-6 0:59:58 by panner]: Updated, once again. Some errors started popping up, and those led to bugs that lead back into Scoop, but I think they're all ironed out. If you've gotten this box before now, you should probably get it again.
Update [2001-7-9 23:53:31 by rusty]: The story that never ends! I've edited the box again, to respect a "cloak me" preference, and to do some totaling.
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Adequacy.org site up
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By elby , Section New Scoop Sites []
Posted on Thu Jul 05, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I recently brought up a site at adequacy.org that's using scoop. But we're using Scoop a bit differently than it's intended...
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All right, who broke the hotlist?
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By janra , Section Project []
Posted on Wed Jul 04, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I first noticed it here, a couple of days ago. Then when I updated to cvs it showed up on my site as well.
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Performance and Caching Ideas
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By rusty , Section Project []
Posted on Sat Jun 30, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Recent traffic on K5 has forced me to start thinking about performance
again. I guess that's not a bad thing. :-)
Essentially, as far as I can tell, performance of the current design is
pretty much maxed out. It's as efficient as it can be without major
changes. Also, I really like the current code design, so I'm reluctant
to make major changes to it. Nevertheless, performance at high-load is
still really not as good as I want (and need) it to be.
So, as of right now, there are two major areas I can think of where
performance could be improved without major disruptions. The first is
archiving stories to keep the database relatively small, and the second
is creating static cached pages for Anonymous viewers. I wanted to throw
my thoughts out there and see if anyone could come up with major flaws
or any suggestions about them. [Cross-posted on scoop-help as well. I wanted to hit as many people as possible]
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