A real Forum for D

[Kai Meyer]

On 11/27/2011 10:41 AM, alex wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just wondered why there still is this uncomfortable and obviously outdated newsgroup software in use.
>
> Perhaps it'd be more contemporary to have a 'real' browser-based forum to which everyone can register and post D-related questions&answers.
>
> 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.

Imagine sitting in a movie theatre after the movie is finished. Everyone 
wants to talk about the same movie. What if you had to look through each 
comment made in the theatre in chronological order, instead of just 
turning to the person you came with and talking to them?

To me, Forums are not meant for discussion. They are a means to 
broadcast an opinion or question, and ask for feedback.

Walter appears to be in favor of having a discussion medium. I think 
that the D.learn newsgroup could be easily (and probably more 
productivly) converted to a web-based Forum. Even though it may cause a 
small division between communities, it would provide a more comfortable 
entry point for new developers who are more accustomed to Forums. The 
Forum could have a read-only view into the news group to expose the 
Forum Users to the language developer community and lessen the gap 
between the two groups.

My 2 cents.