A real Forum for D

[Somedude]

Le 27/11/2011 20:31, Gour a écrit :
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:25:20 +0000 (UTC)
> alex <a_bothe at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> That's it. To be more beginner-friendly. Not to be that unnecessarily
>> complicated and opaque.
> 
> What is not beginner-friendly in this group?
> 
> My mailer allows reading news, I selected digitalmars server, was
> offered list of groups, subscribed to the desire ones and that's it.
> 
> Forum will just divide not-too-big community and with dozen of forums
> it's so difficult to know what to follow etc.
> 
> Here I can quickly skip over non-interesting threads, quickly mark the
> whole tread as read, mark thread as (un)ignore, (un)watch etc.
> 
> However, if you make newsgroup <--> forum gateway, then I don't care for
> those wanting to  read forums, but I'd say that the problem is not in
> 'uncomfortable and obviously outdated newsgroup software', but
> 'uncomfortable and obviously incapable newsgroup reader software'.  ;)
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
> 
> 
> 

The main drawback of newsgroups is the absence of a search feature.
Apart from that, I like it.