Choosing a forum: Difference between revisions

 

They currently have a password/cookies based plugin that will allow single site sign in.

It appears they are working on OAuth based single sign on.

Decently sized community behind it.

You can have a hosted version that integrates with your site easily, but it’s a pay to play.

 

 

If we had to write our own integration, would this make things easier?

Has a hosted option. http://onlinegroups.net/

At first glance, user manuals don’t really look all that clear or helpful.

Definitely has mailing list features. It actually looks quite full featured.

Written in PHP.

External authentication plugin, which only supports certain apps.

We would have to write our own code for making it work with Django.

 

A nice comparison of options exists: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison &

http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/forums/

 

 

 

http://askbot.org/en/questions/

Based on the Q&A style of StackOverflow. Non-traditional look, but very popular right now.

Login integration details: http://askbot.org/doc/askbot-as-reusable-django-application.html

Email list integration?

 

Personal opinion - this style forum looks dated and wouldn’t look great with OH’s more hip style.

They refer to it as “classic style”.

Looks like there is only one author to this project (just a single committer, but maybe he has been accepting patches).

Last commit was 4 weeks prior.

Login integration:

Requires: django-authopenid and django-registration, both of which are already in the buildout requriements for OH.

Not sure how easy integraton would be.

 

 

Login integration is automatic, as this was build as a reusable app.

Has email subscription to threads, like most, but nothing specific to email list integration.