A real Forum for D

[Abrahm]

"Brad Roberts" <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1148.1322462368.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 11/27/2011 10:24 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>> They just don't get what a threaded view is.
>>
>> It's not a difficult concept. Maybe there's some web forum
>> authors who don't get it, but I'm sure a lot of them do.
>>
>> And they probably also know why it is a godawful misfeature,
>> which is why they didn't implement it.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes, people are well aware of a concept, and reject
>> it on technical grounds or other issues of merit. It really doesn't
>> help any discussion when you assume the other side are just
>> a bunch of idiots who obviously haven't seen the light.
>
> That goes both ways.  I too greatly prefer threaded views.  I use it 
> exclusively when reading all my mail, which also
> fully (short of buggy mail senders) maintains the 'proper' threading.
>
> Clearly this is a matter of personal choice and not something that's 
> clearly right or clearly wrong.  Pretending it is
> just perpetuates the argument.  Not allowing the user to choose their 
> preferred navigation / reading / browsing style
> necessarily restricts the audience to the set of people that prefer the 
> tool author's preferred style.
>
> Later,
> Brad

There is certainly nothing wrong with a 5 year old using Legos to create 
a "web forum". The results, though, are apt to be, well, like a web 
forum! I'm all for that: let kids have their play area, but in the 
basement with the door closed please, for I have work to concentrate on 
and don't like have to yell, "Why don't you kids go play in the traffic 
already!".

Abe ;)