Better forums

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 18/06/2015 4:25 p.m., Joakim wrote:
> 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.

We're already doing it. Why not just make it easier? Also makes posts 
like this a thing of the past.

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