Opinionated Rails Forum

This is a rails-based forum engine with some strong opinions:

• Authentication is OpenID, makes new profile if not exists
• There are no forums/subforums
• Topics are tagged
• Tags are lowercase. By definition
• Everyone can edit tags for a topic
• A user is either normal or admin, no moderators
• Avatars are gravatars
• No smilies or sigs

Topics

There are two kinds of topics:

• Normal: These topics always show their entire contents.

• Continuous: These topics are more like a chat room than like a forum topic. They show only the latest 30 or so messages, and provide you with a paginated archive when you really need the history.

TODO

• Mark some tags as usable only by admins
• Remove UsersController#destroy
• Admin: option to split topics
• Only admins and users themselves should be able to edit a user's profile
• Only admins should have the Admin checkbox on profile editing
• Reserve tag editing for original poster and admins
• Replace Markdown with whitelisted HTML
• Replace Prototype with unobtrusive JavaScript
• Create Search page using Google Site Search
• Give users a text box to add their own profile info
• When switching message modes, preserve message
• In large message mode, post/cancel buttons overlap right column