A real Forum for D

[so]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:34:23 +0200, Jimmy Cao <jcao219 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Everything is moving to the cloud and to the web.  Many people, including
> me, only use the web interface for webmail providers like Gmail now.  To
> me, Thunderbird and Outlook are less desirable now that there's a web
> interface that you can access with all the computers that you use every
> day.  Now, your "all-in-one" browser can replace all those scattered
> background processes.
>
> Why are online bulletin boards/forums attractive?
>
>    - The entire interface is designed for message board communication.   
> You
>    can navigate easily as the interface organizes conversations into  
> pages.
>     For example, you can just click on a link and you will find all the  
> that
>    you yourself started.
>    - The interface allows you to permalink individual posts and share  
> them.
>    - The capability to edit posts.  This is extremely useful and a major
>    advantage.
>    - Sticky posts - Posts that are very important and should be locked at
>    the top so that they are easily accessible.
>    - Profiles - you can visit a person's profile to learn more about him.
>     This person can set his own avatar, his contact details, and even his
>    website.
>    - Convenient and fully-featured searching - you can do a search even  
> if
>    you are a new member of the forum.  A good web interface or search  
> engine
>    on a NG allows this, but not with the same capabilities.
>    - Post count (friendly competition and statistics)
>    - Better hierarchy of forums - you have forums and subforums.
>    - Private messaging.  Sure, you can do this via email, but with a  
> forum,
>    you have your own private message inbox for better organization and  
> access.
>    - Easier moderation - I would imagine that admins can delete or move
>    posts much easier on a forum.
>    - Sometimes the interface will tell you if someone is online or not.
>     You can also see the amount of people who are viewing a subforum or a
>    thread.
>    - Extensive formatting options - colors, graphic smilies, quotes, code
>    highlighting with GeSHi, etc.  By the way, a while back I submitted an
>    updated D syntax highlighting guide to GeSHi, so eventually Wikipedia  
> and
>    Wikibooks might highlight D2 fully, too.

Nobody is against web interface and we also have it (ugly and sometimes  
useless but we still do),
what we are against is the replacement of newsgroups with something lesser  
like forums.

Private messaging... quite the opposite i want contributors more open  
about what they think and talk everything here.