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) …..
I'm a 30-year-old 
w00t! Hooray for forum5000!
January 20th, 2003 at 10:08 am
For those who care/don’t care, hatelife shows up as all symbols font in IE 5.50.4134.0600 under (ugh) Win95. I’m at work so please don’t hold it against me.
January 20th, 2003 at 12:59 pm