... in response to Questions for Patrick on editing posts, posted by Richard on Dec 3, 2002I'd have to change the date stamps in the software to get better than 1 day resolution to make the posts editable for 24 hours. I knew this was an issue when I created the edit capability, but didn't want to have a change that would require a re-write of the archiving software.
Spell checkers are pretty complicated to implement, and I don't know if I'll be adding anything like that in the near future. It's a good idea for an upgrade though. I've got to turn my attention to other parts of the site now. I've finally just about caught up with all the agency URL submissions. Next I have to gather all the missing data on all the agenies that registered before I added the new data items, then complete the agency serach engine, and then (finally) get the banner ad programs running again so I can stop working for free (actually it's less than free with the web hosting fees).
At one point I considered switching to a commercial message board format (VBulletin) but the overwhelming response from all the boards was not to change it. It has many advanced features, but it's also more complicated for users. Even I found it a little confusing when I installed it and tested it out. It would also require quite a bit of hacking to add all the anti-troll stuff I've implemented in my custom code (and to transfer the existing accounts).