After some re-considering ive decided to make a effort at this myself. I am going to post a thread tomorrow before I leave for a few days with some of the idea's and stuff, hopefully this one will go better then the last :)

I think that is great news! And thanks for giving us all a second chance to act with gratitude rather than rudeness. Hopefully, with your efforts and those of others, this community will have choices and prove that this is a collaborative friendly kinda place after all!

(BTW...please, check with the powers that be at vB.org that the link in my original post will suffice as permission to port this. One hacker has already had his work zapped because Ryangel has left the building. No one wants to see that happen again, I'm sure. :ermm: )

i guess nothing came of this?

there are 2 journals being worked on as of now, mine and gaming force's :)

A few people have worked on Ryangels hack from VB2 to make it VB3 compatible. It works and the latest releases cleaned up alot of harded coded variables.

I, and everyone else, would like to see the Choco-Journal or the one AN-NET or Brad.Loo have been working on released and a few people have said they will make converters from the aforemented port to these once released. So ... if your anxious to get started, then give it a shot and go for it.

i am planning a port script for ryangle's if i was granted database access to view how the tables were setup ^_^

what's i'd like to see is not a "i'm working on one" but a "hey, try this, it's in beta and i want testers"

many many many coders tryed to start a journal, none... i say NONE was able to finish the job... fame is not enough i think... just advertising that some lines of code are done is not good... some guys will hate you if you never release the tool, so please just talk about it when it's done!

Thank you everyone for working on this. I can't wait to put one up on my forum - and my users are excited about it too. A few requests for additions taht would ROCK:

1) one of the best aspects of a blog is that it generates a lot of links. can we add a sidebar that lets each blogger manage their own multiple links - and maybe hardwire in a link to the hosting forum?

2) how hard would it be to set up one of those "right now I am HAPPY" option boxes with smiley (or frowny) faces?

Thanks again!

i don't get your suggestion about the link box thing?

I think it's called a Blog-Role.

Basically, one of the things that drives blogs is that they all inter-link. This linking is how they get discovered, and read, and it is based on a system of reciprication. The linking helps the blog, but it will also really help the forum, since each member will actually be tracking down and acquiring links to your forum.

Essentially, it's like a post that let's them input a url and url-name which is then put on a sidebar automatically.

For example:
http://tutakai.typepad.com/tutakai/ - the right-hand collumn
http://poliblogger.com/ - right-hand collumn
http://www.redlinerants.com/ - right-hand collumn.

Thanks!
jEd