Better forum

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On 12/06/2012 04:43 PM, deed wrote:
>>> Someone would have to set up the subject structure under D.Learn. Then a
>>> possibly required input field (thinking web interface) could specify the
>>> subject the question belongs to. A voting system would then sort the
>>> responses after relevance and usefulness. It would help building useful,
>>> easy accessible and comprehensive documentation.
>>>
>>> Also, language and library debates could be tagged by subject and the
>>> posts could be rated by votes in order to organize and extract key
>>> points out of long threads.
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>> ....So basically Stack Exchange.
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>> Why not simply point people to stackoverflow tag [d]?
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> Since this is the D site and lots of useful information is exchanged
> here and expected to be found here.

This is the internet.  There is no functional difference between having 
forums.dlang.org redirect to Stack Exchange. (aside from legality, of 
course.) "Here" and "there" are directional concepts that do not 
translate well.

If there is a link on dlang.org that points to stackexchange.com/d (or 
whatever format they use) then "there" is suddenly "here".

This feels very NIH-ish.
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>> The infrastructure is already in place for pretty much exactly what
>> you are talking about, and several of the people here have accounts
>> there.
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