Comment: Struggles

Mark: Well, I had never imagine that someone would have asked me to mimic the famous about.com, but why not? Let see what we can do NOW with YACS.

 Create one section per topic. YACS will definitely support dozens or hundreds of different sections, and therefore different topics. Each topic can have an unlimited number of pages, with images, files, links, as you already know.

 Use the topic as the nick name of each section. This will enable surfers to use the page locator to browse topics, eg, 'http://mysite/go.php/a_topic'.

 Promote regular members to topic editors by mentioning their ids into the 'editors' field of each section. Editors are able to do almost what they want from within their own sandbox, which is exactly what you want to achieve.

 At the moment YACS newsletters are global, as explained to you previously. Of course this could evolve over time, but at the price of a significant development time.

 YACS offers natively one RSS feed per section/topic, and this may be enough for people to track individual topics.

 You can create one discussion board per topic as well, or let people annotate topic pages directly.

Well, as a temporary conclusion, we could say that with the current release of YACS we can support most salient points of the content organization that about.com has.