My D book is now officially coming soon

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/4/14, 2:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/4/2014 12:46 PM, Max Klyga wrote:
>> On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev said:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission
>>>> shows "1
>>>> comment" but there's no comment to see. It also appear in "new"
>>>> submissions
>>>> but not in "hot" submissions.
>>>
>>> I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ .
>>
>> Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators.
>>
>
> yah, looks like that happened.

Messaged a moderator. The post has been approved. However the timing is 
crappy so essentially the opportunity for a broad reach has been wasted.

BTW this is not something that only I can do. Anyone can politely 
message the moderators and ask what happened. Had that happened earlier 
(I've had a million meetings today), the impact of the post might have 
been much higher.

Let me reiterate: there's a lot of good talk about helping D out. 
Concurrently there are many simple, absolutely trivial tasks that are 
very easy for anyone to do but add to a lot of overhead if they all fall 
on the same person. Case in point, I asked for the photos of the keynote 
speakers on the homepage. This is a good idea because e.g. Scott's 
mugshot is instant credibility and a good selling points. Nobody found 
it worth their while to do that, so I ended up doing it myself, too. It 
would be awesome if there was more attention (thanks eco for the 
dconf.org pull request!) paid to all things that we can crowdsource.


Thanks,

Andrei