My68kSpace — #19

Post #19 by paws

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 - 10:50
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/my68kspace.13464/

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A long time ago I thought of the same idea, except my program worked with any existing phpBB, and "screen-scraped" the information off any ordinary phpBB forum and formulated it into a newsreader type format. I never really started on it though.

Screescraping presents a load of problems and would still require that at least part of the HTML was parsed... It might work if used with a theme, as someone suggested.

What I'd love is a replacement for PHPbb that wasn't only accesible via web.
Basically make it possible to write readers without the overhead and trouble of HTML and CSS. There's really nothing in the basic principle of a forum that requires the web... it's just text in a predictable format, like e-mail. Actually simpler than e-mail. It'd be great to have a native 'forum reader' in the style of a newsreader for System 7. Actually that's pretty near the top of my app wish list for any platform...

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Isn't that called "Usenet"?

No, but it'd look pretty much the same way.