Just stopping by to hear your ideas on this...
I am not very good at explaining my ideas(especially through typing)...but I will try...
I am thinking of making something like phpBB, except that instead of having threads be for questions and stuff you start a thread for a download(like music or a vid clip, etc) I would do major changes to the templates to make it look right of course, and look the way a download system should.
It would be like a Knowledge base system(or I guess if you have ever visited a widely used torrent site, something like that), except for file sharing(legal intentions of course
).Basically I am thinking that the easiest way to make this would be to take phpBB3, hack it apart, remove all the extra junk that is not needed, and then add stuff that would be needed in for file sharing. I would basically be making it so it is a stand alone system, and then add the option later to make it work with phpBB2/3, or any BB out there.
I have most of the basics down on how I will do it, right now the biggest thing I can think about is to make it so each forum can have different fields when you upload it(like if it was a song you could have the singers name, and album name, if it was a movie you could have a browser plug-in to watch it in your browser, or if it was a torrent it could have a tracker, etc). I think for that I will have a page where someone can add or remove fields/options for certain categories(kinda like the attachments Manage Extensions page) and then in the forums creation/update pages there would be a drop down box that would allow you to select what kind it was(with what options/fields you want).
Ok, it's getting kinda late here...and I am tired...I probably forgot some big stuff I would want to mention, but if I remember I will say it tommarow.
