What would you change about Smaller Indiana

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Permalink Reply by Robby Slaughter on November 7, 2009 at 10:15am

Great question, Chip!

I wish that SI was extensible. We can create new groups and start new discussions, but the actual mechanisms behind Smaller Indiana are set in stone. For example, the email notifications that you get when you subscribe to a discussion are terrible. They could include the content of the replies, but instead you have to click on the link, rewind back to the last comment you read, and then pick up where you left off. There's also a constant problem with spam on SI. It seems like every week I come across someone blatantly cross-posting the same message to multiple groups. This is easy to solve programmatically.

Ning DOES have some extensibility, but I understand it's pretty weak. They shut down their full API last year. So while I would hate for SI to leave Ning, I don't know that it can grow in many different ways while staying on this platform.

What do you think?

@robbyslaughter

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