[IxDA Discuss] New beta.ixda.org ready for community to use and evaluate

[Christian Crumlish]

On 5/29/07, David Malouf <dave at ixda.org> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> So people all know, there is no way to post a new thread from the
> site. To do so you have to do using email. We thought about several
> web-based mechanisms for doing just this, but b/c of the integrations
> with Mailman we had some difficulties in doing fresh posts from the
> web side.

interesting. sounds like a tough design challenge indeed! Perhaps some
"signage" to that effect will help the confused (like myself). I
wonder if, as a workaround, people will hijack and relabel existing
threads?

> Oh! the topics are human generated and fitting w/ the David
> Weinberger thread on IAI very arbitrary. 8-) (I guess except for Jobs
> and Events.)

Cool, and the assignments of posts to topics is also human-mediated?
Little elves are running around the back-end curating the archives?

-xian-