What's all this about?

Hello! My name is Gregory Sartucci, and I'm working on a new kind of forum called Agora. It's designed to allow large numbers of people to discuss complicated topics and reach meaningful conclusions. It does this through a variety of different mechanisms, but the most prominent is by allowing each post to be in response to any number of other posts and have any number of pother posts in response to it. This means that conversations can split and merge as necessary, to properly cover every facet of a topic without requiring the conversations participants to follow the entire thing. You can see the demo site here.

What does the future hold for Agora?

I'm far from done with the project. I still need to implement federation, searching, and a bazillion other features, and the whole thing needs a lot of refinement. I want to make the forum flexible enough to meet a variety of needs and powerful enough to meet them well.

How will the system be made available?

The source code is up on github and atmosphere, and may be ported to other platforms as well.