App Data can be abused for a lot of things, but many containers limit the max size of it to 10kb per app/user.. so storing all the info of a forum in it would quickly run into this limit.
So unfortunately you can't really escape setting up your own server, of course you could set up your own, but a lot of people have also had a lot of success with using something like Google App Engine, Amazon EC2, Joyent.com etc as a back-end for gadgets, which allows you to code in pretty much any back-end language you'd want and scale as your app becomes popular, so there's various ways of doing this depending on your requirements and expertise. -- Chris On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Erik Earle <nomojom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Context would help, sorry. As I think about it, this probably the > wrong group, but I'lll ask anyway. > > Hypothetically, let say I'm building a site for ...Mercedes Benz. > For part of their site redesign, they want the ability to have > messageboards where the topics are posted videos and pictures (some > mercedes produced content and users posting videos and images of their > cars). Then other guests can comment on the postings. > > We are looking at shindig for managing the social graph but it has > also been suggested to me that the messageboard information be stored > in the appdata type. This seems to me a misuse of Appdata and > something like messageboard posts would best be stored by a system to > external an open social implementation. > > Am I missing something, or would this type of site require the > integration of a message board application with something like > Shindig? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
