Hi Will,

I've just made a post to Scott McCulloch's forum regarding the possibility of working  with you to make use of your forums to provide certain functionality to other modules. This specifically came up there because there is a lot of discussion around having comments and ratings in his popular gallery module.

I personally believe that things like comments and ratings should be provided by one tool for all modules and pages on a site. It just makes no sense to have 6 different comments and ratings systems plus a forum as well.

So I'm doing my bit to perhaps facilitate some work in that direction. I had this idea because you have mentioned that 3.6 will let one place sub forums/groups/topics on other pages. Could that functionality not be extended to provide individual commenting and rating of gallery images?

The benefits are manifold. In particular being able to pull out most popular or most discussed images via RSS would be fantastic.

I've posted about this in Scott's forum here:
http://www.ventrian.com/Support/Pro...fault.aspx
18th post from the top - Posted:3/04/2006 5:05 PM

Thanks for any consideration given to this possiblity.

Regards,
Rob