From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James Taylor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for forums? Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:47:35 -0600 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87r2khaxmg.fsf@openmail.cc> References: <87y3eryk80.fsf@openmail.cc> <874lhfop7f.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87in5vbzv3.fsf@openmail.cc> <8736wycp8h.fsf@openmail.cc> <9FC04800-4439-485E-A718-03566E9814E3@gmail.com> <87y3epb6xd.fsf@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530845307 18619 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 02:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 02:48:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 04:48:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbGnH-0004jN-3g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 04:48:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbGpN-0002NP-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:50:33 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8ONa2Zj4kKlmsLL4z9gC/w.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LUeFIIbLVFZ/qZpgwYWXBQ1JIZU= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223246 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117369 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I would also like this. For fun I looked at the Arch Linux bbs, which > turns out to use something called FluxBB, which turns out to have had a > couple abortive attempts at adding a rest API, the most recent of which > fizzled out in 2016. Oh well. > > Perhaps Hacker News would be a good (relatively simple) first testing > ground. > > Eric Hmm, maybe. I tried a login, and account creation and login are possible already with EWW on Hacker News, though I don't know if posting can be done. Paul Graham sure saw me comin'. As a side note, I'm very glad to not be the only one who thought this would be nice. It's comforting to know that, if there were an elisp hacker crazy enough to try a forum package, there wouldn't be a userbase of 1. ;)