The D programming language newsgroup should lift its game

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

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. People who weren't online 
> in their heyday don't expect to have to use them (for that matter, there 
> are those who *were* around and don't expect to have to use them). When 
> someone checks out a project for the first time, it's quite common these 
> days that one of the first stops is the project's forums. No forums? Ah 
> well, too bad. Next project.
> 
> These days, you can't expect people to have a newsreader installed by 
> default. Nor can they be expected to know how to use one. [...] 

You can expect them to learn to use a programming language like D, but 
not how to install a news reader?

-Lars