A real Forum for D

[Jude]

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Your a little late with your predictions..


On 11/27/2011 03:05 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 17:41 +0000, alex wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I just wondered why there still is this uncomfortable and 
>> obviously outdated newsgroup software in use.
> 
> What is outdated about with a mail list based system?
> 
>> Perhaps it'd be more contemporary to have a 'real' browser-based 
>> forum to which everyone can register and post D-related 
>> questions&answers.
> 
> Why is a browser-based system better -- as opposed to just being 
> trendy?
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> To give D a further community 'push', I and a friend of mine 
>> really would like to set up all required things if wanted.
>> 
>> The reason I'm asking the newsgroup directly is to have the
>> forum that can be reachedunder the official D internet URL, so
>> that it won't be a 'third-party' driven one or something like
>> that.
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> There will be warfare if this thread continues for mor that about 
> 0.6 ms.
> 
> It seems every community has to have this mail vs forum debate 
> every three years or so, and it is completely futile.  There are 
> people who like and can use forums and there are people who abhor 
> them because they are anathema.  The onlt sane system is to have a 
> synthesis of the two: forum interface for those who like forums
> and a mail list for those who only work with email based systems.
> Any other choice is a discrimination against personal choice of 
> workflow.
> 
> I am in the mail list camp.  I will not use forums as it means 
> stuff does not appear in my email system.
> 
> Communities that choose non-email based forums loose a lot of high
>  quality input.  Systems that are purely email based fail to
> attract a lot of high quality input.  Communities that use an
> integrated system win since UI is personal choice.
> 
> So if you want to get any traction at all in this debate only 
> propose an integrated forum/email system any other choice leads to 
> #fail.
> 

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