Proposal for a New Newsgroup

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/12/2014 2:46 p.m., Mike Parker wrote:
> I've noticed an increase in the number of people coming to these forums
> (particularly .learn) for help with some of the tools and libraries in
> the D ecosystem. Some of these projects have their own forums, others
> don't. I think it would be beneficial to have a new group on the news
> server, something like digitalmars.D.thirdparty. I see a few benefits
> from this:
>
> * it helps keep .D and .learn focused on DMD and the language
>
> * it gives us one place to point people to for help with libraries
>
> * it gives library developers with no forum space a place to offer
> support for their libraries
>
> Back in the dsource days it wasn't so bad having separate forums from
> the newsgroups because they were all hosted in one place. IMO, it added
> to the cohesion of the community. New users don't always turn to the
> newsgroups, but they often showed up on dsource to look for help with
> specific projects. Now, while many D projects are hosted at github, the
> maintainers are on their own when it comes to support forums. D users
> may need to create multiple forum accounts for the projects that have
> them, while turning to .learn or #D for those that don't. New users have
> nothing guiding them into the main channels of communication. That
> cohesion of the community is gone.
>
> Thoughts?

I like it, but maybe extend it one further with:
digitalmars.D.libraries.learn
and
digitalmars.D.libraries

With the later being more design/implementation/request sort of thing.