Your previous post, about yahoo clubs, sums up a lot of issues.
Why write a program that is just a clone, or me-to of a program that has serious flaws. Even Google Groups have serious flaws.
Andy and I have a whole code library of things that just need strug together to a whole lot of other stuff, but we need ideas, and a viable need -- and -- though we hate to say it, some profit incentive, since we have to pay for servers, food, homes, kids, etc.
One really good way to start something like this, is to dummy up a site using HTML, and whatever CGI you can, but actual functioning is not the key, design and functionality is. Once the interface bugs, and feature set is worked out, it's much easier to code module by module to add in the functionality.
The most serious limitation of the GT programs has been lack of a huge number of template sets, and template code fragments.
Maybe with CSS, that will become more of a reality, as less importance is place on globals for performing the layout.
I know this doesn't sound like the same issue, but it is. The templates and custom globals drive the interface of Links, and both enhance -- and limit -- what you can do with it. If there were more widgets -- and I know I've wanted to create a widgets site --
http://sqlwidgets.com/resources/ -- a whole lot of things would be more available.
No one shares template sets. Except for a few from the links 2.0 (non-sql) days, there has not been much in the way of template sharing.
See another post in the discussions area for Links SQL I'm about to make.
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