A new web newsreader

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-08 21:15, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/8/11 4:55 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> As mentioned previously, I've been working on a web frontend for the
>> DigitalMars NNTP server. I collected ideas and inspiration from the
>> several threads on this topic in the last few weeks, and now I think
>> that the result is ready for beta testing and general use.
>>
>> The current (temporary) URL is:
>>
>> http://dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net/discussion/
>
> This is an absolutely fantastic development. It's exactly the kind of
> thing that D needs - using D to write something nontrivial and highly
> useful. I just got in touch with Walter about it, and as of now you have
> in us strong supporters for replacing the existing Web bridge with this
> one.
>
> One thing though - you must use hyphenation everywhere :o).
>
> Here are a few large topics that we should discuss a bit:
>
> - Would you consider merging your codebase with
> d-programming-language.org? That way we'd have a simple deployment
> target and simpler unified maintenance. The downside would be that your
> project would have less individuality as an independent NNTP-WWW bridge.
> (That could be partially addressed with directory structure etc.)
>
> - If not, how do we go about integrating with
> d-programming-language.org? For example say we change the navigation
> panel on the left. Then we'd need to coordinate with you to pull the
> code, regenerate your own page, and so on.

Perhaps as a git submodule in d-programming-language.org? Dfeed would 
change to only render the actual feed and somehow it gets included in 
the regular site. I'm not entirely sure how since the whole d-p-l.org 
site is rendered using ddoc.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg