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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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Formatting in polls not consistent
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By Matthew Bafford , Section Code []
Posted on Mon Dec 18, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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When creating a poll today on Kuro5hin, my formatting (in this case <b>we</b>) worked fine while previewing the post, but after submitting it, the formatting came across with the tags presented as plain text.
(4 comments, 74 words in story) Full Story >>
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Fractional ratings for comments
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By Defect , Section Code []
Posted on Fri Dec 15, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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By adding and manipulating a couple variables in the get string request, a user can rate comments in fractions as opposed to the default integers [0..5].
Not a serious bug, all the details i could come up with are below, as well as some side-notes regarding abuse of the GET string in scoop with respect to comment rating.
(5 comments, 434 words in story) Full Story >>
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Vote for topic/section as well when voting for stories.
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By Defect , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Dec 15, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Wading through the submission queue on K5 and the related comments i came across a story (Boarding Schools (at 56 now, it may be out of the queue when you see this)) that seemed to be in the wrong section and topic.
I'm suggesting that when submitting stories, the user can choose the topics that he/she personally thinks the story should be in, but during the moderation process, when users vote +1/0/-1 they also vote what section/topic the story should go up into.
(6 comments, 205 words in story) Full Story >>
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The Next Big Thing After Diaries: Reviews
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By Eloquence , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Dec 15, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I have raved and ranted a lot about the importance of ratings in the past. While Scoop already does a good job at implementing ratings in story & comment moderation (in spite of its shortcomings), there's ground it does not cover yet: reviews. I have talked about distributed databases for such purposes, but given that nobody will code a sophisticated one in the near future, implementing reviews in Scoop would already be a great step forward. Read on..
(1 comment, 774 words in story) Full Story >>
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More GET string fun. Now with 100% more polls.
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By Defect , Section Code []
Posted on Fri Dec 15, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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What seems to be a feature, but is currently not entirely implemented (or maybe reserved for admins), can still be accessed by anyone. It involves setting up initial values for poll options.
Aside from that, it's just another bug report from the self-proclaimed GETbitch.
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Remove comment moderation from diaries.
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By enterfornone , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Dec 14, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I noticed someone mod a comment in my diary down to 0. Quite unfairly since the post was obviously on topic, but that's not the point. The point is others have the power to decide what I get to see in my diary while as an untrusted user I do not.
I think moderation should be removed from the diaries and perhaps diary owners should have the power to kill trolls in their diary.
(3 comments, 97 words in story) Full Story >>
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Minimized Vote Tally
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By Remy , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Dec 14, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Due to some browsers choking on incredibly long SELECT form tags, I'd really like to see some way to either reduce or hide the long "Voted For/Voted Against/Don't Care" lists that appear after voting for a story.
(3 comments, 206 words in story) Full Story >>
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Need for a new release to code from it...
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By jy , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Dec 14, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Hi,
It would be cool to have a new (beta!) release, so that we could develop from that version.
At the moment it seems that there are a lot of patches anywhere (perl files or sql files).
Thanks !
JY
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