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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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Scoop to Email Gateway, a Plan
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By rusty , Section Code []
Posted on Wed Mar 07, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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For a long while, there's been some call to add an email gateway of some kind to Scoop. With Digest.pl, we have a one-way feed of story summaries, at least, but I think there's call for more. For example, one scoop-using project, Opennic, maintains both a scoop site and a mailing list, which basically overlap as to content. Some people are really married to the email interface, and do not want to switch to a web-based discussion. By far the best solution all around would be to have a transparent, two-way email to Scoop gateway. Below are my ideas on how to implement this.
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Coutning Hits With In Scoop
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By bbatchel , Section Code []
Posted on Sun Feb 18, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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One of the latest things I have implemented in
my scoop site is a hit counter.
I figured what better place to do it than in the same mysql database that scoop runs in. Below I will run through how to set one of these up in your own site.
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Code to Anonymise the Submission Queue
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By Mystic , Section Code []
Posted on Wed Feb 14, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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There has been quiet a number of discussion on how people discriminate against stories written by a certian person and vote it -1 without even reading through the story and judging the story subjectively. Few people have suggested that the Story Submission Queue should be made anonymous to get the desired result of "No discrimination based on author".
Here I present hacks to scoop code base that can get the desired result.
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Last 5 Comments
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By bbatchel , Section Code []
Posted on Fri Feb 09, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Ok, again, I am posting code which I have written with the smaller scoop sites in mind. This is a box which shows the 5 most recent comments posted in the system...
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"Don't include my sig" option
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By tech , Section Code []
Posted on Sun Feb 04, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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How about a checkbox option during comment submission to not include your sig?
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Last 5 Users To Join
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By bbatchel , Section Code []
Posted on Wed Jan 24, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Below is code I have written that creates a box that shows the last 5 people to join the site. I really think this is only cool for small sites..but maybe I am wrong.
The code would work alot better (be more accurate) if there is a date field in the users table. But this seems to work fine using the UID of the user which should keep getting larger and large as more users are added.
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User Information
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By skim123 , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Part of growing a community is giving the users the ability to learn more about the members of said community. I have a couple of very simple requests that I think would make it easier to learn about the members.
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Truncated subject lines
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By itsbruce , Section Code []
Posted on Sun Jan 21, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I've lost the end of several subject lines on k5, despite making sure to use fewer characters than the maximum imposed by the text box on the form. This has happened using 3 different browsers (Mozilla, NS4, Konqueror).
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