Project Ivory - Features and the Testing Thread

When Discourse was submitted to HN, this immediately came to mind, though I couldn't remember its name. It was a breath of fresh air in terms of approach and design style. It would be awesome to see chat-forum hybrids like this become popular, because I've wondered what could be done with a more evolved IRC. I only regret it's not in a language I operate in, and I'm not sure how easy it'd be to customise to add features.

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Here's the relevant discussion thread (thanks davidcollantes), which got lots of comments and upvotes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499845

There's also an open-source release of it, but it seems not to have been updated in months:

https://github.com/cheshirecats/CuriousWall

(Also, is there a bug with scrolling on Chrome? No matter whether I scroll up or down, my mousewheel sends me down the page.)

Boy is this new title lame. Formerly it was something like: "Pivory: the forum software that had a chance" , which told us that we weren’t supposed to be looking at the thread, but rather the software used to implement it.

Which is pretty cool.

But - as was mentioned in at least one of the other cheshirecat/Pivory threads a homepage for this project would be really handy for these purposes :)

See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=cheshirecat

Very elegant tool, but it could clearly do with a proper home/landing page to explain what it is, what it does etc.

it does look nice. But forum owners want to monetize their traffic w/ banners and google adsense. But it looks like thats what your trying to solve.