Quote from: Mitch at Dec 20, 2005, 08:48 PM
I like the idea of a native MODx forum, but from the text above I get the impression that each post will be a seperate page in the documenttree. Isn’t that going to be a bit much for the documenttree? I mean you will have a couple of hundred messages in a forum pretty fast. I wonder what this will do to the MODX performance.
I am concerned on this point as well. MODx documents are meant to represent pages, but many of these things are simply entries that are aggregated on a single page, and should probably not be represented in a site as a complete page. Performance of all aspects of MODx would degrade quickly with a community the size of the this one. We’d have 13,150 pages. I can’t imagine trying to manage that in our manager as pages.
The blog/comments works like this because most blog posts need to have unique URLs and the typical blog doesn’t have 13,000 entries (though some do and in those cases, our simple blog snippets aren’t going to cut it either).
IMO, MODx can be a great web integration platform for best-of-breed applications that already do what they need to do well (this will become more apparent as more developers create integrations between MODx and these apps), but it is not a be-all, do-all structure for constructing native web applications, yet -- I am working on that right now.
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