Better forums

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 04:01:42 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> Actually I'm in agreement with Vladimir. NNTP as a backend 
> system works rather well. And personally I was quite surprised 
> at this.
> No, we could easily add tags just prepend them as:
>
> [GUI][Serialization] Help!!!! cannot serialize widgets data to 
> disk
>
> Really its just the web interface that needs to support it. 
> NNTP clients will be more then happy to just search for "[GUI]".

While I access this newsgroup exclusively through the web and do 
not use the NNTP/email interfaces at all and agree that those 
backends are unnecessarily limiting the web forum, I agree with 
Vlad and Rikki that an old technology is not necessarily 
inferior.  Given the crap that's often created with new tech, it 
seems like people do not learn from the old tech at all.

I agree with Rikki that it'd be better to add features to the web 
forum in a backward-compatible way, such as putting tag names in 
the titles or using Markdown for the forum's markup, which is 
perfectly readable in email.

btw, loving the new "Save and preview" button! :)