enhancing forum features: 1click upvote, sorting, 1click duplicate etc (eg: userecho use case)

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:31:49 +0200
"timotheecour" <thelastmammoth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just stumbled upon http://sublimetext.userecho.com/ which hosts 
> a forum (integrating ideas, discussions, questions, news, feature 
> requests etc) for a text/code editor (sublimetext, which seems 
> nice btw, and supports D :-) ). It is powered by userecho.
> 
> (disclaimer: I am NOT affiliated in any way with either userecho 
> or sublimetext).
> 
> I was wondering whether there would be any interest in migrating 
> towards something more feature rich than the current dlang forum, 
> possibly userecho, or at least enhancing a bit the features of 
> the current forum.
> 
> Here are some things that it provides, compared to the dlang 
> forum:
> 
> integrated bug report, feature request etc (dlang has 2 separate 
> websites for bugs (http://d.puremagic.com/issues) and other posts 
> (http://forum.dlang.org/)
> 

A few additional notes, beyond what Jonathan said:

> 1 click to report as spam

The few spams we get end up getting deleted quickly anyway. We wouldn't
really gain much from this.

> 1 click upvote/downvote for ideas/questions[...]
> 
> 1 click to report as duplicate
>
> ability to sort posts by top rated/newest/most commented etc.
> 
> and statistics functions

These are just "bells and whistles" frills. I really don't see much
need for them. And yea, voting on posts is the "in" thing these days,
but that doesn't mean we need it.

Of course, if Vadimir added this stuff to DFeed then fine, even great,
but they're far too trivial to be reasons to switch.

> good searching, 

startpage.com
Query: site:forum.dlang.org foo

(Or use google directly if you like Big Brother watching)

> 
> ability to post videos which could be useful for tutorials etc 
> (eg : 
> http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/59029-code-folding-doesnt-work-if-code-isnt-indented/)
> 

There's already a way to post videos. It's called the Internet ;)

Off the top of my head:

- Attach file
- Torrent
- Post URL from:
   - HTTP/FTP server
   - Filesharing service
   - YouPoop or YouPoop competitor

> 
> Another nice feature would be to allow forum users to enter 
> editable/runnable code sections as in the http://dlang.org/ front 
> page. That would be very useful to report bugs or answer usage 
> questions. That would encourage users to post working code.
> 

There's already a couple sites that do that for D. Like with the videos,
I don't see any point in it being integrated into a forum. That'd be
like duct-taping a screwdriver to a phone.