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Downloads not part of a weblog?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, January 23 2002 @ 06:55 pm EST

Many weblog sites involve downloads, including yours. Who wants just plain news anymore. You want news with a twist or news about a project. And that often includes downloads. If you would like more examples other then your own site let me know. Dont you think it would be nice to have a download section of your site similar to your liknks. That way people can submit plugins, patches, themes, code for blocks(I have some), etc.. You will be hard pressed to find a weblog that does not include this functionality. I dont use any of those otherweblogs because I really like what you have going here, and that\'s why I bother to make these posts. So please understand that I am not trying to give you a hard time, I really like your work and would like to help you improve it.

It seems a little silly to me to limit the scope of your project that much. But ofcource, that is your desition. If you really do not want to include this, I guess what I would like to see is better plugin support and documentation. I would also like to see more plugins in general but I think that will come with better support and documentation (and a download area ;) ) for plugins.

Thanks for all the good work!

Downloads not part of a weblog?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, January 23 2002 @ 06:58 pm EST

Sorry, should have been a reply to the thread, I dont know why it was not. Is there a way to move comments around? There is another feature idea :)

Downloads not part of a weblog?

Authored by: Tony on Wednesday, January 23 2002 @ 07:18 pm EST

You are hitting on what I struggle with everyday. I want Geeklog to get better, I want it to enjoy a huge userbase but I also want to make Geeklog unique from the other weblogs. I don\'t know how they do it, but a great example of a project that does this is SquirrelMail. They are very clear about what is core to the system yet they have a large number of plugins you can install to extend the system. Arguably some of those plugins should be in the base code but they aren\'t.

Should file sharing/peer-to-peer stuff be supported with Geeklog? Maybe that would make a great poll question. What I will say is that by providing a plugin system, we give the option for people to implement features us developers haven\'t or won\'t get to.

So, I won\'t say this idea is dead. I will considering and mull over it with the other developers and see what we come up with. I love your input! Keep it coming ;-)

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