A real Forum for D

[Kagamin]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> On 11/27/2011 11:55 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 2011-11-27 23:30, Walter Bright wrote:
> >> Those are all desirable properties. But the forum software I've seen
> >> throws out what's good about NNTP news forums:
> >>
> >> 1. Threaded view
> >> 2. Being able to mark messages as "read"
> >> 3. Being able to quickly scan read vs unread
> >
> > Just because this may be true for most of the forums doesn't mean it needs to be
> > true if d-p-l.org gets a new forum.
> >
> >> BTW, most forum software is pretty much unreadable on small, mobile
> >> screens because all the real estate is consumed by the borders, avatars,
> >> decorations, gee-gaws, etc. Even text-only reddit blows on the small
> >> screen because the text refuses to reflow.
> >
> > Then that's just bad design. If the forum is designed correctly there won't be
> > any problem.
> 
> 
> Here's a typical example:
> 
> http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=72850.0
> 
> Check out all of the vertical space consumed by a 2 word message.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.d.general/70244 - and this is not a limit, I've seen a 2 word message three times as bigger.

> No threading 
> view that I can find. There's a "Mark Unread" button, but that applies to the 
> entire thread, not individual messages.
> 
> Here's another:
> 
> http://www.gamedev.net/topic/615737-concave-polygon-to-convex-polygons/page__pid__4887554#entry4887554
> 
> Same problems.
> 
> http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?source_id=2016875109&source_name=mbase
> 
> Note the teeny tiny amount of the screen that is for message text.
> 
> http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/28/0050228/muslim-medical-students-boycott-darwin-lectures
> 
> At least it's got a real threaded view. But no way to tell what you've read, so 
> if you come back to an active topic after an hour or two, it's a real pain 
> trying to figure out what you've read and what you haven't. I rarely bother to 
> load a topic more than once because of this. Same goes for reddit.