Can we please have digitalmars.D.phobos ?

[Carlos Santander]

Bill Baxter escribió:
> pragma wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>> Reply to Anders,
>>>
>>>> Alexander Panek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> *hint* I think a d.D.Tango newsgroup would be appreciated, too!
>>>>> *hint*
>>>>>
>>>> But Tango already has a forum ?
>>>> http://dsource.org/projects/tango/forums
>>>>
>>>> --anders
>>>>
>>>
>>> And off we go again to debate the reason that NG's/forums are the 
>>> stupidest/only way to go for on-line dialog.
>>>
>>> As for me and my self, I will not use forums.
>>
>> Oh c'mon BCS... /everyone's/ doing it. ;)
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why the strong dislike of the forum system?  Is it 
>> too log-in happy, or is it more of the "my interface or the highway" 
>> disposition of the beast?
>>
>> The reason why I ask is I'd like to write RSS output for TracForums 
>> sometime in the future.  If there's actually some people that dsource 
>> isn't reaching for lack of an alternate interface, then I'm all for 
>> pushing up the priority a bit. :)
> 
> For me it's the speed issue.  Web pages just take a long time to load. 
> Dsource is much better now after the hardware upgrades, but still 
> there's no way a forum with all its frames and images and fancy layouts 
> can beat the speed of what is basically the download of raw text from a 
> server.
> 
> And maybe there's an information density issue a bit too.  Forums tend 
> to have a lot of empty space on the screen.  They fill up the screen 
> with a bunch of blank space, and then are forced to put a big row of 
> links to more pages of the stuff that wouldn't fit [prev|1|2|3|4|5|next] 
> at the bottom.
> 
> Forums also seem to encourage people to make frivolous 'me too' comments 
> for some reason, also contributing to the lack of information density.
> 
> --bb

That becomes even more important if you're using dial-up.

-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal