Spreading the word about D

[Koroskin Denis]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:52 +0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> I think somebody tried that before, but to get google to mirror an NG  
>> you have to convince google it's a major enough NG to be worth  
>> mirroring.   Apparently they weren't convinced at the time.
>>  Certainly worth giving it another shot I suppose.  Eventually if  
>> enough people ask, you'd have to think they'd decide that it's easier  
>> to just mirror the darned thing than keep dealing with all the requests  
>> to mirror it.
>
> I've sent repeated requests to Google to pick up the n.g. which they've  
> ignored. I've thought since that might not be a bad thing, as we don't  
> get a whole lot of spam here.
>
> I like the reddit comment system a lot. I read it's open source now. If  
> it could be used in conjunction with the n.g., that would be ideal.
>
> (In conjunction meaning that the reddit would be the "web interface" to  
> the n.g.)
>
> The web interface used now sucks, but it is the only one we found that  
> would even work. It is open source, and anyone is free to try and  
> improve it.

I enjoy the solution found by Sony very much:

All their console game development discussion is concentrated in  
newsgroup, that can be accessed via web interface as a full-featured forum  
(with login, statistics, search etc. Think of phpbb, for example). At the  
end of each message there is a www link to the it to be accessed from a  
browser. I found it very handy!

Most people are more used to forums, not newsgroups. Maybe we should write  
a wrapper one for D newsgroups and put it into this new site?