What Apple laptops are covered in the PowerBook section? — #15

Post #15 by ~tl

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 - 22:53
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/what-apple-laptops-are-covered-in-the-powerbook-section.12978/

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Right, I've added a PowerPC PowerBook/iBook section...

There will always be a split on the forums between the 68k purists who think even the PPC stuff should be spun off into another board entirely, and those who think we should have forums for everything. It's not going to be possible to please both camps, but I think the setup we've got just now is a good balance between the two views...

But this leads to a more database related question: Might it be possible to 'flag' a post in 'peripherals' as 'related to SCSI' or 'related to RS 422' AND 'related to HyperCard' (for example), and to switch on/off visibility of posts in a forum depending to their flag? Any new post should meet one or more categories to choose from. This way one could decide easily if the post belongs to the forum. Or think different, and have a set of categories to choose from to post something (with nothing chosen, it is clearly off topic, to be thrown into the lounge). Let the server decide into which forum the post will go, without additional interaction (-> less 'moved' posts). To view something, check the categories you are interested in, and have a forum customised to your needs. From a database organisation point of view there should be no need to organise the forums in fixed categories. Fixed forums still could be supported, like the forums we already have. They are one possible set of categories to organise discissions. No one needs to change habits.

Unfortunately, that's not possible with phpBB (the forum software we use), and it's not something I've really seen in any other software, though it's common on things like photo galleries, blogs, social networking sites and the like. I'll keep an eye out for it though...