A rich web interface for mailing lists

“Luke Macken and I had a little mini hackfest today on improving
collaboration in Fedora. This is an idea we came up with this
afternoon and I mocked up most of it on the bus ride home tonight.
(A 2-hour bus ride home as the post-Boston-flood road conditions
and traffic during rush hour were really bad tonight.) Luke already
has a working prototype 🙂

“What do you think? The Inkscape source is of course available
so please feel free to try out your own ideas and play away and
bounce them back! These are some random, off-the-cuff points about
some of the ideas behind the mockups to help give some context. I’m
likely missing a lot of good points here so I apologize in advance
for my sloppiness:

* threads are flattened to one level to make it simpler to
follow
* both the number of participants and number of comments are
noted
* posts have ratings to discourage one-liner “me toos” replies and
also to make quality discussions more visible. not sure though
which scheme is best, what do you think?”

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