Social comments integrated with dlang.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/29/12 12:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 December 2012 at 17:37:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/29/12 9:55 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 29 December 2012 at 14:22:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> wrote:
>>>> Yes. I very strongly believe we need to have a form of
>>>> community-provided contents. (Not sure whether disqus is the most
>>>> appropriate vehicle, but since it's the only one that's currently
>>>> implemented, it's by definition the best we have.)
>>>
>>> We also have a wiki, and the existing links to it on each page.
>>
>> We've had that for a while, wasn't successful.
>
> How did you reach that conclusion?

By recknoning that next to no library documentation content has been 
produced on the Wiki.

> When comparing the amount of contributions, we should take into account
> that D is not as popular as PHP or jQuery.

Wasn't comparing against those - just saying it's not happening. FWIW in 
my opinion: click on a link to get somewhere vs. content integrated on 
the page - big difference.

> The previous system used ProWiki, the problems of which have already
> been discussed in depth. One of the more important ones, as it pertains
> to discussion, is that it did not provide a simple way to monitor all
> changes to comment pages (it does not seem to have an equivalent of
> MediaWiki's Special:RecentChanges and RSS/ATOM feed). Thus, questions
> could go unanswered for months, until someone actually noticed that a
> question has been asked.
>
> With MediaWiki, I have the option of integrating edit notifications into
> DFeed, and turn them into IRC notifications. This has allowed #d users
> to answer StackOverflow questions within minutes of them being posted.
> (I have delayed this to avoid pointless flooding while the bulk of
> initial edits occurred.)

That sounds great.


Andrei