Hi Alexander, Those are a couple different requirements. In order to discuss based on the review/rating I would say go for the PTK which I *think* has that type of thing built in. You could also use a modified Squishdot. The other discussion type sounds a lot like ZDiscussions (Confera is the old ZD). I have been messing around with the code for the last week trying to bring it back to where most discussion boards are today (Phorum, UBB, WWWBoard etc) and "boring" bits of all of them. If you want to look at an example try this... http://209.219.93.106/kenya/discussions/test/ Feel free to post, reply, etc if you want (yes.. anyone can.. if you want). Comments on the how the board works would be great too. I will be sending back my changes to Mike to see if he wants to put them into the redistribution of the package. In the long run I will be building ZUBB (Zope Ultimate Bulletin Board) which I have started to outline here.. http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/ZUBB This will be much more like UBB (duh!) but will have all of the ability of Zope as well as have a database backend. J At 1:30 PM +0200 4/25/2000, Alexander Limi wrote:

Zopistas,

I would like some advice on choosing which product to use in my implementation of a discussion board on my site.

We run a site much like mp3.com, where we host music for artists free of charge.

The requirements are roughly this:

- People should be able to comment on individual songs by an artist, also rating the song from 1-6 as they post their opinions (kind of like a mini-review)

- The discussion threads should be collapsible

- Only logged in users should be allowed to post comments

Should I go for Confera? ZDiscussions? Parts of the Squishdot code?

Are there any other alternatives in addition to these? I heard some people experience crashes and lockups when they used ZDiscussions on their site, any advice on this?

Thanks in advance,

Alexander. (Please CC me if you answer to this mail)