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This doesn't need to be invented from scratch. trn (a very handy way of reading usenet) has all the features you've listed, and much more.
Having an interface as bandwidth-light as USENET's would also benefit people with poor connections.
A couple of programmers have told me that it wouldn't be that hard to write a version of trn for the the web, but it's just too boring. I'm not qualified to say whether this is reasonable.
How much money would make it interesting, do you imagine? I'm fairly sure I could throw a twenty into the pot were such a venture feasible.
I"m not sure.
I've raised the question.
If you think this is a worthwhile project, I hope you'll raise the question, too.
Meanwhile, assuming there's interest, how would you identify who should be doing it?
Autopope's analysis there seems spot on to me. Doing it right is a biggish problem, on the order of a programmer-year of work.
That's the $64,000 question. I'm not competent to identify good coders.
I wonder if there shouldn't be a focus on a specific application, here - phpBB, for example.