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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somewhere down the line (1.0, 1.1 maybe) I have the desire to have the full CoApp package manager GUI support feedback, comments and ratings on packages.

Now, I really, *REALLY* don't wanna go to the effort of writing all that myself (what with accounts, logins, tracking, etc), so I'm thinking what we should do, is leverage something like Disqus (http://disqus.com/) - which is what I'm using right now for comments on my blog, the CoApp website, and about 700 million other places on the web.

Nice things:

-          Users can Authenticate using whatever they like (twitter, facebook, opened, yahoo, etc)

-          We don't have to store or maintain *anything*

-          Supports nice features like 'like'ing, linking, sharing, embedding, etc - many tools for dragging people into CoApp

-          People can embed pictures in comments

-          Comments can be moderated

-          Each comment thread can be tied to a UniqueID (which we actually have in the form of Package Canonical Names)

The only thing we'd have to do is put in a browser control into the UI (and we can obviously lock what it can do down), and present the appropriate view to the user.

We could either use the IE WPF widget, or it turns out there is another based on the Chromium/Webkit engine : http://awesomium.com/ ... which sports a WPF control as well.

What do y'all think?

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