Forums

[galador]

Batter should have forums, or some equivalent method of community discussion.

Some things I can think of that will need to be provided:

• different areas of discussion categorized by topic ("forums")
• flexible permissions system to allow certain user groups to see / post / moderate certain forums
• potential to have forums that do not contribute to awards (Awards / Achievements #40)
• list to see unread messages
• ability to mark forums as read (either a single forum, or all forums)
• "Lazy" load posts, only one page per topic. No "pages". If you haven't yet, take a look at Discourse, it's a new open-source forum project from the guys who worked on StackOverflow, and it's looking really nice.
• Probably tons more stuff I'm not thinking of.

[Woodenhead]

• things like Soundcloud & Bandcamp embedding
• Ability to lock posts (mod edit)
• thread merges?