Has anyone used VB3 to run a blog?

[Ian Montgomerie]

Hi guys, I am going to start a blog but I find myself really displeased with the blogging programs out there. Blog comment threads are HORRIBLE, no matter how active they are it becomes very hard to get to them once they scroll off the front page. And of course if you end up with lots of comments, nothing beats VB3 for ability to manage them. With VB3 you could also do stuff like have public vs. private friends-only threads quite easily.

So, anyone have any tips on hacks or simple mods I could use to make something that looks vaguely like Blogger or Movable Type, but has VB3 inside?

The key seems to be to basically have a discussion board, with a seperate "blog front page" that is the default home page. I would want this page to automatically display the full text of the last N thread-starting messages from a group of selected forums. Basically I would give only myself the right to start threads in these forums, and those would automatically show up as blog posts. Then I could also have other forums where anyone can start a thread. The key is that in the blog front page you see the most recent topics in order of posting, but on the discussion board page you see all the topics in order of most recent comment.

Also there could be a "view by topic" option on the blog front page that just selects one particular forum for viewing. So if for example I had a "politics" forum that I post to, then someone could go to a page that displays the first post of each thread in that forum. And so on.