Daily Kos is powered by a content management system (CMS) called Scoop. Scoop was designed originally to power a website called Kuro5hin (http://kuro5hin.org/) but has since been used in hundreds of sites. It apparently is famous for running political sites, such as our very own DKos.
The problem, though, is that it's been wiped off the face of the earth.
Daily Kos is powered by a content management system (CMS) called Scoop. Scoop was designed originally to power a website called Kuro5hin (http://kuro5hin.org/) but has since been used in hundreds of sites. It apparently is famous for running political sites, such as our very own DKos.
The problem, though, is that it's been wiped off the face of the earth.
Not entirely, mind you - sites like DKos and Kuro5hin are still alive, kicking ass and taking names. The problem stems in actually getting hold of the content system itself. The nominal website for Scoop - http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ - throws up a picture of their web server, nothing more. Any Google search about Scoop either turns up articles about sites running Scoop (like this place), or simply links back to the empty Scoop homepage. The mailing list, on Sourceforge, has been removed and locked; the archives are inaccessible. Any links to download Scoop point, invariably, to the only mirror of the code - on the defunct Scoop website.
Granted, the code hasn't been updated since 2007. Granted, there are other CMSes out there. But Scoop works so well for Dkos, and would work so well with the ideas I'm working with. (Ideas like what, eh? read on)
So where is it? If Scoop is really dead, where's the eulogy?
And failing Scoop, does anyone have any pointers on where I could find something similar?
Fair warning disclaimer: I'm more of a tinkerer. I'm a city planner by profession, and a creative dude as a hobby. I don't program, but I can muck about in code on a very limited basis. I'm smart enough to run something like SimpleMachines forum software, or even Wordpress, but coding something from scratch is out of the question.
Ideally, any CMS suggested would allow, out of the box:
- User-created diaries or blogs.
- Said diaries could be voted to the front page automatically.
- Commenting, user profiles, and the like.
- Perhaps gallery software (for photography), but that's not strictly necessary.
Right now I have a rather unwieldly installation of Wordpress-MultipleUser going, along with some heavy customizations courtesy of Buddypress. But it's complete overkill. My target userbase is only now getting to the point of being comfortable with message boards: A full-on customizable blog like what Wordpress allows would drown them. Likewise, something as powerful as Drupal or Joomla would slaughter ME as a site-admin; there's too much stuff to go wrong.
Basically I want to use tech like message boards and Scoop to explore better civic participation. My small hometown has very, VERY limited online presence. The aforementioned newspaper has a successful message board, but they have their own agenda to worry about. I want to give my neighbors a public sounding board for local issues, stuff that wouldn't get much traction if it weren't deemed important by the conservative newspaper. I have the message board part down: It's the blogs that are hanging me up.
Any help? Surely there's some fellow tinkerers out there with experience with CMS software. Thanks in advance!