Comments on: KDE Community Forums: So ‘fast’ so good! http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/ Code is poetry Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:01:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sayak http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4943 Sayak Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:40:19 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4943 <blockquote><b>John:</b> Are you guys on twitter?</blockquote> You can follow us in identi.ca here: http://identi.ca/group/kdeforums <blockquote><b>Paul999:</b> So you are saying that the MySQL fulltext is crap? What makes you say that?</blockquote> I did not say that. But it is always true that sphinx is a more scalable search backend. We found it harder to deal with 2 million index rows in the db, so we switched to sphinx. <blockquote><b>jinx:</b> Do you plan to restart the klassroom project? Why did it die out?</blockquote> We do. For one, it was discontinued as we went short on volunteers who were willing to conduct a kourse as a mentor. <blockquote><b>Samantha:</b> Ooh.. just noticed KDE brainstorm.. nice stuff.. How do you manage to have ajax for the whole interface? Is it native to your board software? If it’s GPL, where can I get the code?</blockquote> It uses an xmlhttp AJAX script. It can be found at our code repository here: http://gitorious.org/kde-forum-mods <blockquote><b>awilson:</b> I am willing to work as forum moderator on a paid basis. If you are interested, drop me a mail at wilson@gmx.com</blockquote> Thank you for the offer. We do not recruit staff on full time / paid basis. KDE Forum staff are volunteers who devote their precious time in managing the forums.

John:
Are you guys on twitter?

You can follow us in identi.ca here: http://identi.ca/group/kdeforums

Paul999:
So you are saying that the MySQL fulltext is crap? What makes you say that?

I did not say that. But it is always true that sphinx is a more scalable search backend. We found it harder to deal with 2 million index rows in the db, so we switched to sphinx.

jinx:
Do you plan to restart the klassroom project? Why did it die out?

We do. For one, it was discontinued as we went short on volunteers who were willing to conduct a kourse as a mentor.

Samantha:
Ooh.. just noticed KDE brainstorm.. nice stuff..
How do you manage to have ajax for the whole interface? Is it native to your board software? If it’s GPL, where can I get the code?

It uses an xmlhttp AJAX script. It can be found at our code repository here: http://gitorious.org/kde-forum-mods

awilson:
I am willing to work as forum moderator on a paid basis. If you are interested, drop me a mail at wilson@gmx.com

Thank you for the offer. We do not recruit staff on full time / paid basis. KDE Forum staff are volunteers who devote their precious time in managing the forums.

]]> By: awilson http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4940 awilson Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:02:17 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4940 I am willing to work as forum moderator on a paid basis. If you are interested, drop me a mail at wilson@gmx.com I am willing to work as forum moderator on a paid basis. If you are interested, drop me a mail at wilson@gmx.com

]]> By: Samantha http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4941 Samantha Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:58 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4941 Ooh.. just noticed KDE brainstorm.. nice stuff.. How do you manage to have ajax for the whole interface? Is it native to your board software? If it's GPL, where can I get the code? Ooh.. just noticed KDE brainstorm.. nice stuff..

How do you manage to have ajax for the whole interface? Is it native to your board software? If it’s GPL, where can I get the code?

]]> By: jinx http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4938 jinx Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:14:52 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4938 Do you plan to restart the klassroom project? Why did it die out? Do you plan to restart the klassroom project? Why did it die out?

]]> By: Paul999 http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4937 Paul999 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:46:46 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4937 So you are saying that the MySQL fulltext is crap? What makes you say that? So you are saying that the MySQL fulltext is crap? What makes you say that?

]]> By: wkonso http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4936 wkonso Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:41:14 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4936 KDialogue reminds me of Digg Dialogg .. hee hee KDialogue reminds me of Digg Dialogg .. hee hee

]]> By: John http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4935 John Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:04:11 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4935 Are you guys on twitter? Are you guys on twitter?

]]> By: Danny Allen http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4831 Danny Allen Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:41:25 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4831 Cool, look forward to getting some new interviews for the site! Danny @ behindkde.org Cool, look forward to getting some new interviews for the site!

Danny @ behindkde.org

]]> By: Alan http://www.sayakbanerjee.com/2009/09/21/kde-community-forums-so-fast-so-good/comment-page-1/#comment-4934 Alan Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:18:31 +0000 http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=310#comment-4934 git sure is great. I too use it on my project webpage. git sure is great. I too use it on my project webpage.

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