Better forums

[tired_eyes via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 08:49:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 08:47:35 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 05:17:22 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
>> wrote:
>>> BTW, here's a quick chart I made of how people post to this 
>>> forum:
>>> http://dump.thecybershadow.net/fd29290682da8888489542fc3dc92409/00000179.png
>>>
>>> Although more than half of all posts come from the web 
>>> interface, about 40% use other methods.
>>
>> What's included in Other? I didn't know there were other 
>> methods.
>
> I think that's mostly NNTP clients which generate a message ID 
> locally instead of using the one suggested by the server.

New forums looks much better compared to previous version and 
visually integrates very well into main website.
However, Morbid.Obesity raised some good points, although in a 
harsh manner - webforums and mailing lists are separate things, 
and if something looks like a webforum, it's expected to behave 
like a web-forum. Having forums that are just NNTP-frontend has 
some disadvantages, e.g. lack of moderation and unability to wipe 
awful offtopics like this: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mlqla5$bq3$1@digitalmars.com

So... shouldn't be mailing lists separated to webforums? At least 
in theory?

Vladimir Panteleev, I know that it's unpleasant to see your 
project being criticized after so much work, so please don't get 
me wrong. Again, new forums are way better than previous. But 
they still have issues that looks like unresolveable without 
compatibility breakage.

---Anton Pastukhov aka tired_eyes