On 2/9/11 1:01 PM, Miguelinito wrote:
Welcome, Brandon
For the past several months I have been tasked on-and-off with redesigning LiquidThreads (LQT), which is a next-generation discussion system.
I was really thinking that the discussion pages should be redesigned because they are very cold!!
For a start, I think that "discussion" is a word that shouldn't exist in the vocabulary!! :)
Will you tell us something more about LQT??
I, too, dislike the word "discussion" and am using the phrase "Collaboration System" instead, at least in most of my talks about this. A "Discussion System" is one part of a larger "Collaboration System," to my mind.
Here is a link to the current design document. It's technical in nature, and currently a work in progress. Many things are changing with it still (such as colors, features, etc.). It's also intended as a first-draft for a platform (so things like reputation systems are not included in these mock-ups).
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads/Redesign
I'm working on a less-technical, more conversation-form document as well and should have that ready early next week, but feel free to comment on the current page.