Re: Emacs for forums?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

James Taylor <james@openmail.cc> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I would also like this. For fun I looked at the Arch Linux bbs, which
>> turns out to use something called FluxBB, which turns out to have had a
>> couple abortive attempts at adding a rest API, the most recent of which
>> fizzled out in 2016. Oh well.
>>
>> Perhaps Hacker News would be a good (relatively simple) first testing
>> ground.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Hmm, maybe. I tried a login, and account creation and login are possible
> already with EWW on Hacker News, though I don't know if posting can be
> done. Paul Graham sure saw me comin'.

All I know is, if I've got a HN client on my Android phone, it should be
possible to do via Emacs. I'd be looking to add this to Gnus in
particular, though, not EWW in general.

> As a side note, I'm very glad to not be the only one who thought this
> would be nice. It's comforting to know that, if there were an elisp
> hacker crazy enough to try a forum package, there wouldn't be a
> userbase of 1. ;)

I think we could get four, at least :)