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Nestable Squishdot

The problem I'm trying to solve is this: I'm building an intranet-type site for my company that has general company-level announcements and discussions. But I also want separate "subsites" for individual projects so that low-level postings and discussions can happen without spamming the entire company. Yet it should be possible to occasionally include a posting from a "subsite" in the parent site, eg. for project announcements that the whole company should know about.

It seems like this should be pretty do-able. Perhaps a new object type called "Squishdot folder" could be created to make it easy to drop in nested folders of discussions. The main index_html method could be modified slightly to make better use of aquisition. This would allow for specific rightbox_methods within subfolders, different topic images, etc. Folders could be displayed in the leftmost column under the "post / search / admin" choices.

Comments? Flames? I'd be happy to play around with the code to see if I can hack together a version of this. I think it would add a whole new dimension of usability to Squishdot.

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