Better forum
deed
none at none.none
Thu Dec 6 15:13:18 PST 2012
On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 22:59:04 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> ....So basically Stack Exchange.
>>>
>>> Why not simply point people to stackoverflow tag [d]?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>> The infrastructure is already in place for pretty much
>>> exactly what
>>> you are talking about, and several of the people here have
>>> accounts
>>> there.
My point is not how this is implemented, just that it could be
useful to enable sorting of the posts, mainly with D.Learn in
mind.
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