A real Forum for D

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Mon Nov 28 15:22:05 PST 2011


On 11/28/2011 09:27 PM, Kagamin wrote:
> 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.
>

I have two windows, one to browse the messages and one to display the 
messages.




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