Here's what I hope to do with the Everything code or with something like it (idea)

f1r3br4nd: I have given thought to what one (well, me, actually) might do with the E2 code. The basic organization of Everything2 is (as I see it) like that of a jar of pennies. If you turn your back on it, it will attack and kill you. Wait, no, I meant it's not organized into categories, or sorted into lists other than the few (the proud) metanodes. I thought it would be a very neat idea to have users of a new database able to create and control (to some extent) their own nodespaces. Nodes would be able to cross reference (link) to nodes in their own spaces and in others. Each nodespace would have a front page, maybe some sort of rating system to keep the really bad nodespaces out of the way (but not necessarily out of sight.) This would add a lot of structure to an Everything-like system. Some people might view this as a disadvantage, while some people might see it as a large improvement. Personally, I think it's both:
Disadvantages:

• Questions arise, "Where do I post a certain node?" (Maybe nodes could exist in more than one nodespace, and could be picked up by other nodespaces given certain conditions such as X softlinks to it from one nodespace. Perhaps there would be some sort of default/root nodespace for new nodes? I don't know.)
• Wouldn't this partition the community? (Probably)
• Any others?

Advantages:

• Structure - Indexing, making it easy to read up on certain topics: (ie. I want to read everything ever written about They Might Be Giants, so I'll go to that nodespace) Also, I feel that people and ideas would interact more if, instead of wondering off into the oblivion of a large nodespace, they were placed in close proximity.
• Tailorability. That is definitely not a word, but what I mean is that someone who hates burritos wouldn't have to read about them unless they went to the burrito nodespace. (A better example would be of someone who doesn't like political nodes or getting to know you nodes).
• Explorability. Instead of skipping from node to node, and possibly running into an interesting one while surfing soft links, I could skip (merrily) from topic to topic until I found a subject that was interesting.
• Any more?

Please /msg me, anyone who feels they like/dislike this idea, or if they were offended by my burrito remark.