Spent a good part of the morning checking out forum software. Free forum software. Free forum software that allows nesting or threading. I never could figure out why anybody would want flat forums. You have to look too hard to figure out who's saying what to whom in response to what.
I've found two that I like, but I'll keep looking.
What I'd really like is nesting in blogs. That way, a blog entry could become the start of a forum. Check out my Elgg community SPODE if you really want to know what I want when it comes to blogging and forums and all.
I also took a quick look at Drupal, which, unlike Elgg, includes forums, but uses flat forums and is not as intuitive to my mind as Elgg. Besides, Elgg has some incredible social aspects that will serve OWIe's purposes well. Now if I could only get those guys to make it more spode-like.
I'm open to suggestions, by the way. There's a lot I'm learning and even more I don't know.
Fore example, I just looked a little deeper into Drupal's forums and discovered that although the examples I'd looked at previously (and have looked at to date) are flat, threading and a few other cool features like collapsing are possible (that's non-Geek for supported). I don't know. I'm going to have to give Drupal another gander. Sorry, Ben and Dave.
