Better forum

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Wed Dec 5 13:04:26 PST 2012


Am 05.12.2012 21:55, schrieb Dmitry Olshansky:
> 12/6/2012 12:42 AM, Rob T пишет:
>> On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at 18:24:04 UTC, js.mdnq wrote:
>>> I have a lot of trouble with the forum. Many times a msg will not post
>>> as it sits in a cycle waiting for the nntp server to get the message
>>> or for it to be announced.
>>>
>>> IMO there are much better forum software out there that would make it
>>> easier to communicate about D than the current method.
>>>
>>> http://www.mybb.com/ is free, pretty good, and relatively easy to setup.
>>>
>>> The ability to edit a post makes life much easier too!
>>
>> Here's another split thread?
>>
>> My understanding is that the forum is something made out of an nntp news
>> server, and some people use a newsreader client instead of way us web
>> based forum folks go about it. Why use nntp for this forum?
>>
>
> It's the other way around - it's an NNTP server originally.
> The web forum is a recent addition as no extra hassle way to start using
> it. The hassle being installing newsreader & getting it to work properly
> on all machines you may want to use.
>
> In the end it opens the newsgroup to a wider audience I guess.
>
> Once I got used to threading I'd hate to switch to the "stream of
> messages" style that typical web forums produce.
>

I love NNTP, and loath the plague of web newsgroups.

The web access is very good to access the forums when I am on computers 
where I don't have the proper rights to have a newsreader installed, but
that is about it on my case.

Maybe I am too old school, but I like my usenet.

--
Paulo


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