Was just wondering what else it could be used for, given a few tweaks, in an outside-the-box kind of manner?
I could see it being very nice as a personal online filing system, for notes, links, scraps of code, that kinda stuff. (Have tried gmail for this but it's a wee bit clunky, and backpack has too much interface on the damn thing)
Providing the framework is as extensible as mark can make it. I presume that it could be used for a variety of uses other than just a forum. Few things that come to mind are catagorized blogs, wiki, cms/cvs, and probably a number of other things that would require some heavy extension modding. It could all be done. Just not easily.
It's wierd, but you're totally right. I could turn Vanilla into a ton of different kind of applications. The one that's particularly been on my mind is a bug tracking application. This would be a pretty damn easy conversion, too.
I think I'd call a bug tracker "Cilantro" because I flipping hate cilantro and I'm always trying to fish it out of my food.
i would love to see an awesome bug tracker... mark do you use one at all currently? i've been using one that is actually pretty wicked... fogbugz... it has tons of features that are actually useful.
I've been wanting to write my own cms/blog engine for a looooong time. I've gone through all the big ones, MT, TXP, WP, Bloxssom..
To that end, I'm looking at the vanilla code. I'd like to see if I can make it into a blogging engine. I like the simple way it's laid out already, and the fact that it's got comments and posts, etc. I don't see why not.
I'd imagine it would just take some work. In any case, I"ll be looking at it. I guessin the end the "hard" part is the template and page generation, but I think I've got that down.
Once it's finished/close to finished, I'd love to have it maintained by a group of people...