forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

[sigod via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 10:54:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, June 05, 2015 10:19:20 sigod via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> Markdown in a raw format is very readable. As for me, it's 
>> easier to read raw markdown than mix of text and code.
>
> Perhaps, but I don't want to see raw markdown in e-mails any 
> more than I want to see raw html, even if raw markdown isn't 
> quite as bad.

Your comparison of markdown and HTML doesn't make any sense. 
They're fundamentally different.

>> > So, while it might be nice to have markdown if we were 
>> > dealing purely with forum software, we're not, so it doesn't 
>> > make sense.
>>
>> I don't see a reason why forum cannot have features on it's 
>> own. Especially, when this features won't significantly affect 
>> other ways to access the same information.
>
> If you're screwing with the content of the messages, then yes, 
> it does affect the other ways that the information is accessed 
> - and that includes adding stuff like markdown or html into the 
> messages. If it's something that just affects how the content 
> is viewed in the web forum, then that's fine, but it needs to 
> not mess with the content of the messages

Are you sure you aren't confusing something like [bbcodes] with 
[markdown]?

I don't see how markdown can obscure message. For example, this 
quotes (`>`) are part of markdown.

> or assume that all (or even a majority) of the users are 
> communicating via the web forum.

You missed my point. I was talking about _potential_ users. 
Aren't we all want for D to became very popular and broadly used?


[bbcodes]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode
[markdown]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown