>I honestly just figured that hacking with the dcboard.cgi script
>was as close to interfacing with Vision as I'd ever get... A man can
>dream!

Well, it wouldn't be in dcboard.cgi - that's just the front-end wrapper that calls whatever .pl files are required to perform the task. Implementing the 'reply as new thread' will require modifying a few files. Both to generate the new UI element, and to handle the post properly. I think it'll take hybridizing the 'start new thread' with 'reply' code.

There are a number of things I'd like to add to DCF, this is just one of them.

But I'm starting to grow frustrated with some of the fundamental architecture of the boards, making it harder to do some things that I think it should be. So I've talked with Jer and Josh about ideas for writing a new system from scratch, and putting it on a database (MySQL probably) instead of directories full of flat files like DCF is. It'd also be a good time to fix all the HTML ugliness, etc. Sometimes it is just better to start with a clean sheet of paper. DCF has had a lot of features added to it since I started using it - it was DCF2k 1.0 at the time. Then came 2k 1.1, 6.0x, 6.1x, 6.2, now 6.2.1. More and more it feels like some things are being stretched, or glued on, because the central core hasn't really changed. David is talking about a rewrite for 7.0, but, in a way, I'd like to see what I can come up with. I'm still thinking about it, and how I might license it - GPL, BSD, or a commercial license. ie, will I try to make money on it? If I can produce something decent maybe it'll become the next DCF or something...

Anyway, my current plan is to get my dev box working, then take DCF 6.2.1 and port over the features I'd added to 6.1 that didn't make it into the new code (some of what I created is now standard in DCF). Then I'll upgrade the forums - and AnimeOnDVD.com too. (I help maintain the DCF there, and Chris is waiting on me for the port.)

Then I'll probably do a few hacks to 6.2.1 that I've been holding off on - like the 'reply as a new thread' hack. But some of the more complex ideas I have I'll probably save for my new project. Basically once I get 6.2.1 stable and make people happy, I'm hoping to devote my time to developing the replacement instead of adding more to the old one.

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