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On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 19:54:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Given how enormously popular Twitter is for breaking news and 
> announcements, I think you're wrong about that.

I have just check web pages for several popular programming 
languages and have found zero using twitter instead of a news 
feed. Popular? Applying general statistics (internet users) to an 
extremely narrow specialized group of people (programming 
language consumers) is not going to work.

>> Also it ties important information channel to an external 
>> closed
>> service which is never good for the reputation.

It is a service that belongs to specific corporation and is 
completely controlled by one providing no means for federation 
and/or self-hosting. Random move from Twitter and D web site can 
loose its only news feed. Outsourcing primary infrastructure does 
not smell good.

> A large number of improvements have been made by someone 
> showing enough interest to actually drive forward the changes 
> needed to support their interest. For example, Brad Roberts and 
> Bugzilla. Vladimir and the D forum software. Etc.

Which mostly highlights how awesome some members of D community 
are :) But why not lower entry barrier? By the way, I have 
already asked a question in that regard - if someone comes up 
with a more dynamic web site implementation which is still based 
on D stack, will it be accepted?