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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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Editorial/Topical Warning Location
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By gauntlet , Section Code []
Posted on Fri Jan 19, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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In posting a comment to a story in the submission queue, you are required to indicate whether your post is editorial or topical. If you do not make an indication, a warning message appears above the article in response to your hitting the "Post" button.
But that warning, depending on article length and screen size, will often not be seen.
(7 comments, 163 words in story) Full Story >>
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2 rating bugs for the price of one
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By Defect , Section Code []
Posted on Wed Jan 17, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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An anonymous hero (unlogged in user or random passerby) can rate comments by appending ";rating_[comment_number];rate=Rate+All;" (that's why some people have had "Anonymous User" as someone who's rated their comments, someone found it but didn't report it apparently)
Scoop doesn't check whether or not the rater has a uid of -1, it assumes security because it doesn't show the rating drop downs when a user is not logged in.
(2 comments, 127 words in story) Full Story >>
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2 boxes
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By hurstdog , Section Code []
Posted on Sun Jan 14, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Here are the new boxes, after the changes I've made this weekend to the scoop code. The new poll_box allows you to use the new Search capabilites to search for polls, and it takes the load off your server for not using poll_listing(). The new comment_control box gets it so that you can change the comment listing, ratings, etc. on a poll and not have it give you the "poll '' not found" error.
(2 comments, 1615 words in story) Full Story >>
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Vote counting race condition (Priority: LOW)
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By fvw , Section Code []
Posted on Fri Jan 12, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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It's just a cosmetic bug, but a bit ugly. I got the following on k5:
Your vote (-1) was recorded.
This story currently has a total score of -3.
But furtheron on the page:
Current score:-2
Total votes: 50
The score should probably be read out only once, and saved in a var and printed where necessary.
(3 comments) Comment >>
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HOWTO: create a new opcode without writing any code
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By K5_eries , Section Code []
Posted on Sat Dec 30, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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The title doesn't sound too exciting, but I think this is a pretty useful technique. I am writing this little tutorial in the hopes that it will encourage more people who dont' necessarily have that much coding experience to hack Scoop. Thanks to a combination of new features, especially boxes and templates, it is really easy to add all kinds of new functionality to Scoop from within the web-admin interface. I'm going to walk through the steps requried to add an online help system, which is something I've wanted to do for a while, anyway.
(668 comments, 1198 words in story) Full Story >>
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Two Boxes: "comment_controls" and "show_comment_raters"
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By rusty , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Dec 19, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Two boxes for ya, one brand new, the other updated. The first is the one that actually lets people see who rated each comment what. The second is an update to comment_controls which lets it work properly from op=comments pages as well as op=displaystory.
(5 comments, 900 words in story) Full Story >>
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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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