The D programming language newsgroup should lift its game

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sat Apr 3 07:44:32 PDT 2010


Mike Parker wrote:
> Jordi wrote:
>> Kyle Mallory wrote:
>>> On 4/1/10 10:51 PM, Justin Johansson wrote:
>>>> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>>>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>
>> I second all this. I understand D is not a "corporative" project 
>> backed up by a huge marketing team or anything like that, but better 
>> managing of its image and communication channels (in usability and 
>> appearance) would help it a lot.
>>
> 
> A big start would be ditching the newsgroups for proper forum software. 
> I know a lot of people here prefer the newsgroups, but like it or not 
> this is 2010. Newsgroups are from yesteryear.

I have to say, most forums seem incredibly amateurish to me. I'm amazed 
that absolute garbage like phpBB is actually still in use. Is there any 
*good* forum software out there? It doesn't seem like it would be hard 
to beat a newsgroup. But...



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