What would it take to get trn on the web?

[nancylebov]

It seems to be technically possible now that Javascript is in common use. It would make long discussions easier to read and navigate. I believe that making long discussions more feasible would make the web a better place, and killfiles might be a noticeable win too.

I've mentioned this, and been told that it wouldn't be that hard to write, but it's too boring.

The question has been raised of whether money would make it interesting, and if so, how much. Any opinions?

(I put this in terms of trn because that's what I was happy with. I don't know whether slrn has a huge advantage, or if it would be much more trouble to write.)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That was an important piece that I just didn't have a feeling for. I could tell there were a lot of details which would need to be right, but not how hard the underlying task was.

I was imagining it as shareware, but I suppose companies which have commercial forum software would pay for it.

I bet that if there was a commercial version, a shareware version would materialize soon enough.