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Making scoop more lightweight.
By delmoi , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Sun Jan 27, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST

And I don't mean from a server side perspective, but rather from a user's point of view. Scoop is cool software, but a site just starting without many readers, up a lot of the features are kind of overkill. Below I present my `small site' wish list for a more lightweight scoop UI geared towards smaller sites.

The first thing I'd like to see: no submission queue. Stories go right to the front page rather then going a voting queue. On lit.hatori42.com a good story could sit in the queue for a couple days until enough people vote on it, even if the number is just one or two, it can still take a while. For some kinds of sites posting directly to front page with moderator deletion (a la metafilter) might be better then the complex queue system.

Immediate account activation, sans-email. Maybe this would be a mistake, but until it becomes a problem, why require email account activation. It always bugs me when I need to go through all of that just to get an account somewhere. Maybe until it becomes a problem, not requiring people to use email to activate might be helpful for sites just getting started.

Well, those are really the only major things I can think of right now (other then getting rid of diaries and/or sections (but that can be done currently). If anyone has any other ideas post them as well.

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Making scoop more lightweight. | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden)

autoposting of stories (4.50 / 2) (#1)
by hurstdog on Sun Jan 27, 2002 at 12:17:11 PM PST

Set the story_post_threshold to 0, in the Site Controls. hope that helps.

-hurstdog

Would that post to section or what? by delmoi, 01/30/2002 12:10:14 PM PST (none / 0)

Front page by hurstdog, 01/30/2002 05:11:06 PM PST (none / 0)

Breaks diaries! by slinberg, 02/05/2002 08:19:47 AM PST (none / 0)

aha! by hurstdog, 02/05/2002 10:49:38 AM PST (none / 0)

fixed by hurstdog, 02/05/2002 11:33:03 AM PST (none / 0)

will that work with .7? by delmoi, 02/09/2002 01:15:45 PM PST (none / 0)

No by panner, 02/10/2002 11:37:56 AM PST (none / 0)

[a relatively inappropriate comment] (4.00 / 2) (#2)
by Defect on Sun Jan 27, 2002 at 11:29:37 PM PST

Are you sure scoop is what you're looking for? You could do what you want with scoop (rewriting a little bit for the new account issue), but it would be like waiting for the bus when your destination is down the block. I'm not saying scoop isn't a great application, but you don't seem to have much use for its base functionality, and there are simpler (or different, rather) solutions out there.

Now, i would feel fine posting this to a site like, say, k5, but going against scoop on the site for scoop feels stupid, so feel free to zero this comment.

One possible reason... by rusty, 01/30/2002 10:53:25 AM PST (5.00 / 1)

Accounts (none / 0) (#9)
by enterfornone on Tue Feb 05, 2002 at 08:13:31 PM PST

Immediate account activation, sans-email.

A better idea IMO would be the ability to post without an account but displaying your handle instead of Anonymous Hero or whatever the default is. For big sites like K5 this would be a bad idea, but for small sites it's a bit much to expect everyone posting comments to create an account.

Making scoop more lightweight. | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden)

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