[Issue 14045] Redo the forums entry page and links

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14045

--- Comment #4 from Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> ---
(In reply to Vladimir Panteleev from comment #3)
> (In reply to Andrei Alexandrescu from comment #0)
> > 2. Please change the group links to the simpler http://forum.dlang.org/D,
> > http://forum.dlang.org/D.learn, http://forum.dlang.org/D.announce. The
> > "group" interstice has no use to anyone.
> 
> Will need to be careful with this as then there is no way to distinguish
> between a group's index page URL and that of another resource on the forum.
> Future group additions or renames could in theory collide with existing
> resources on the website.

OK, I'll defer judgment and tactics to you. The high level point is that
human-readable, simple URLs are a net win. Facebook has had an entire project a
couple of years ago to humanize its URLs, and it's been a success.

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