oh man … yesterday was the hardest bit of thinking i’ve ever put into programming.

the result, though, is stunning! [http://hatelife.org/]

hatelife’s editing features are now a simple revision-control system, so that old content is never deleted – what makes this tricky, though, is that every post is now no longer “a post,” but basically a revision-tree, so presenting threaded discussions means you have to collate all of the revisions of every post or reply into a single reply-tree (keeping track, too, of posts that are replies to other posts which have later been edited) … it all turned out to be extremely tricky. any of you with logins on fojar should check out /disk/web/hatelife.org/www/classes/Data.php (the showReplies() and showThread() functions are the scariest) …..