Over on PHPComplete this morning, there's a new posting from Jason about an interesting project that he's been thinking about doing - a forum with no frontend.

Sound strange? Well, it's not that odd.... I have been planning on a new project, a personal project. It's a forum designed from the ground up to be just that, a forum. A forum without a front end. Now, these exist already. People call it "Newsgroups" or "Usenet". But this will be slightly different. It will be web based. But it doesn't have to be. The plan calls for two parts. The first part is the Forum Server if you will. The job of the forum server is a big one. It maintains the forums posts, threads, sections, and more. It is what the second part connects to. The second part being the Forum Client.

It's an interesting idea, but there'd be some issues with the production of the client (and the server, especially. I'd imagine that, keeping with the purpose of the site, he'd write it all in PHP, and have it easy to integrate with any personal site out there...