New web newsreader - requesting participation

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jan 31 14:28:37 PST 2011


Adam Ruppe wrote:
> In the other newsgroup, I've been talking about a little
> web news program I've been writing as a spinoff of the
> potential new homepage idea.

That is great news. I've been wanting to do one for years! I haven't looked much 
at yours yet, but here's my ideas anyway :-)

1. Can use web interface or nntp interface
2. web interface looks sort of like reddit, i.e. all posts on a thread
3. users can post anonymously
4. web interfaces supports logins - logged in users can vote up or down on posts
5. web interface can mark posts as read or unread - fixing my beef with reddit 
that there's no reasonable way to scan a thread for new posts
6. an easy way for moderators to delete spam
7. runs on 64 bit FreeBSD (what the Digital Mars server runs on), yes, I know 
that means I have to get 64 bit dmd on FreeBSD working!


I can contribute the code that generates the D archive pages from the news postings.


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