[drupal-devel] [wanted] forum module improvements

[Boris Mann]

On 17-Aug-05, at 7:07 AM, Knapen Dries wrote:

>> Anyone willing to work on the forum module?  I'm particularly
>> interested in having (i) forum moderators and (ii) forum view
>> improvements.
>>
>
> A feature that I really miss in standard Drupal forums is a 'quote'  
> button/link. It's tedious to copy the text you want to quote and  
> paste it in blockquote tags each time (and people that are not  
> familiar with html will never figure this out).
>
> I also think that BBCode support (with the option to disable it,  
> obviously) should be considered for core, especially for the [img]  
> tag. Setting up, for example, a photography forum with Drupal is  
> not as simple as it should/could be.

Both of those things are already available as contrib modules.

If someone wants to build a "Drupal for Forums" distribution, that  
might be the answer.

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Boris Mann
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