Better forums

[tired_eyes via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 11:41:42 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:12:46 +0000
> Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 10:27:46 UTC, tired_eyes wrote:
>> > Having forums that are just NNTP-frontend has some 
>> > disadvantages, e.g. lack of moderation and unability to wipe 
>> > awful offtopics like this:
>> 
>> We can delete messages and ban users in extreme cases (e.g. 
>> outright spam).
>> 
>> > So... shouldn't be mailing lists separated to webforums? At 
>> > least in theory?
>> 
>> Separating them would mean separating the community.
>
> Yep, that would be perfect ;-). Now when newbie comes to dlang 
> and read a few post on forum, his impression must be something 
> like WTF.

Although I absolutely understand reasons for the current state of 
things, topics similar to this one will appear in the future.