Recent discussion about discussions

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 18:11:52 UTC, bossfong wrote:
> As a "new kid", I'm really baffled by by how much discussion in 
> the developers scene is done in mailing lists.
> I strongly believe that mailing-lists are not suited for heated 
> discussions on very specific issues. I even belive it's 
> counter-productive when comparing the discussion flow with 
> modern forum software.
> By modern forum software I mean discussion centric software 
> like disqus[1].
>
> My appeal is it to switch to a more modern forum software (even 
> though I value really much, that the current webforum is 
> implemented in D).
>
> Is there anything specific holding us back?
>
> [1] http://disqus.com

I don't see anything from that which would make it better for 
heated discussion. A discussion is just a thread of replies. 
Votes are probably the only thing missing because they eliminate 
the need for "+1" posts.