A real Forum for D

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Nov 27 10:16:46 PST 2011


"Jude Young" <10equals2 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1127.1322417735.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Sun 27 Nov 2011 12:01:24 PM CST, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "alex" <a_bothe at gmx.net> wrote in message
>> news:jatsnd$f71$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I just wondered why there still is this uncomfortable and obviously
>>> outdated newsgroup software in use.
>>>
>>
>> old != outdated
>>
>> NGs are better.
>>
>> Seriously, what's with people's "old == outdated" bullshit these days? 
>> What
>> is this, the goddamn fashion industry? Certainly feels like it half the
>> time.
>>
>>> Perhaps it'd be more contemporary to have a 'real' browser-based forum 
>>> to
>>> which everyone can register and post D-related questions&answers.
>>>
>>> So, my recommendation would be to establish a forum based on phpBB or a
>>> similar framework software (btw, it's free and open source, so don't 
>>> worry
>>> about possible
>>> costs!) at forum.d-programming-language.org
>>>
>>
>> phpBB is crap. Actually, anything PHP is crap.
>>
>>>
>>> Even if this idea should be a bit too 'large', please do fix the http
>>> interface for the D main newsgroup thread - it's not working for me and
>>> only gives back a
>>> connection timeout.
>>
>> People are working on a better web interface for the NG. But bear in 
>> mind,
>> *any* web interface is going to be inherently inferior to a real NG 
>> client
>> simply due to *being* a web interface.
>>
>>
>>
> It's not really a matter of "either/or" imo...
> I think that everyone will admit that having an 'official' forum would
> probably boost popularity.
>
> A good place to post questions and search the archives EASILY would
> definitely be a boon.
>

A web forum isn't needed for that, just a better web interface to the 
existing NG.




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