It's the Web... 2.0
Well, I had to put in a Web 2.0 reference. Who isn’t these days?
It turns out that I am currently carrying around on USB flash memory a heavily-under-construction (read: currently utterly non-functional) AJAX prototype of Cluster 2.0. It promises to feature real logins, comments on fragments, RSS, and Textile fragment formatting (MAYBE… recent investigations suggest difficulties).
I’m using Dojo as the DHTML/AJAX framework, which is painful and informative at the same time. I haven’t dealt with documentation this bad since I tried to get a DHCP server running on something like SuSE 7.0 about three years ago.
There may also be some kind of timebomb mechanism, but every time I think of a concept it seems very, very bad to me in practice.