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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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Login Account Forwarding
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By snowlion , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Apr 26, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Registering for new scoop sites is a hassle.
I'd like to be able to easily authenticate my username and password between scoop sites.
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Them Damn Edit Boxes
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By pwhysall , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sun Apr 21, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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As an editor on K5, I probably spend more than my fair share of my time staring at a pair of story submission edit boxes.
They're too narrow and too short for sensible working with long stories.
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Alternative Short Dates
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By zsau , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue Apr 16, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Multiple different ways of formatting short dates—such as d.mm.yy (16.04.02)—should be added to Scoop to make it more accessible to people from outside of the United States of America.
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Knowledge of html as a barrier to participation on Scoop sites
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By rashmi , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue Apr 02, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Users on my Scoop site www.dialognow.org often complain about how difficult html is. Recently someone posted this as part of their comment: I hate HTML= Horrendous,Terrible,Meaningless Language!There are a number of members who (write well, and have a lot of interesting) but choose not to post front page stories because they cannot deal with posting links. I see the need to know html acting as a real barrier to users being able to post quality stories & comments. Is this problem being faced by other Scoop sites? And is it important for Scoop to make the posting comments and stories interface accessible to non tech-savvy users?
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Story Vote Redirect Change
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By Spurvus , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sun Mar 24, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Send me back to the story list, not the story.
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Link within a Story opens new browser?
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By bojo , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Tue Mar 19, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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This is probably a very small feature request, and definately nothing earth shattering, but I figured I would queue it up.
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Killfile or "Ignore User" option
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By nhlinux , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Sun Mar 17, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Trolling is a problem in any online community. I'd like to see a killfile or "Ignore User" option where you can click on a button in a user's comments and add him or her to your killfile or bozo list.
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Scoop Ad Exchange
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By dram , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Mar 14, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Now that ads work well and are easy enough to implement - I did it, how hard could it be - I was thinking about setting up some sort of ad exchange for scoop sites. I think that it would be a nice, easy way for some of us poor college students (read: me) to get some free advertising on other sites. What does everybody think of this? Would anybody be interested?
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