D marketplace

[language_fan]

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:04:04 -0600, Stanley Steel thusly wrote:

> On 10/6/09 11:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Stanley Steel wrote:
>>> On 10/6/09 12:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace.
>>>> In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products,
>>>> hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads
>>>> for D programmers, anything business oriented that's related to D.
>>>>
>>>> Is this something needed?
>>> What about something a little more than a news group? I'd be willing
>>> to offer up some development time.
>>
>> I thought a n.g. would be easy to manage, and we can see how things go
>> with it before spending a lot of effort.
> Sounds good.  If you change you mind, let me know.

The nntp system is not that bad actually. What annoys me on the 
announcement group is that there is too much OT discussion and new 
release announcements are added to the same thread with lots of OT posts. 
Some kind of moderation would be more than welcome.

If you have time and energy, you could also fix the web interface and/or 
improve its user interface design - it's annoyingly broken and ugly. I 
guess Walter would be more than glad to accept patches.