working on the dlang.org website

[Elvis]

On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 20:34:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/15/2013 1:11 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Watch the news - many times the news reporters will remark that 
> they not only get their breaking news from twitter, they'll 
> show the tweets as part of the broadcast.
>
> Twitter for news is mainstream.
>
>
>> 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.
>
> If twitter ceases to be useful, we'll move to something else. 
> Note that we also rely on github and Amazon S3. We do self-host 
> this n.g., which has been nice in keeping it fairly free of 
> spam & trolls.
>
>
>> Which mostly highlights how awesome some members of D 
>> community are :) But why
>> not lower entry barrier?
>
> Because somebody has to step up and do the work for that. Note 
> that there is no paid IT infrastructure staff. Change is driven 
> by somebody self-appointing themselves champion and driving 
> their agenda forward.
>
>
>> 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?
>
> If it is obviously awesome, sure. If it isn't, or if it is only 
> marginally better, or same only different, then no.

FYI, Twitter is blocked here in China. Web pages which need to 
parse Twitter or other blocked services related stuff become 
unresponsive for a long time before showing other stuff normally.