[dlang.org] new forum design - preview

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 06:12:23 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 05:56:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 05:52:51 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 06:01:41 UTC, Vladimir 
>>> Panteleev wrote:
>>>> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/pull/51
>>>
>>> Not an improvement at all, hurts my eyes.
>>
>> Unfortunately this form of criticism is not actionable.
>>
>> What would be more helpful (least to most):
>>
>> - A specific list of things that can be improved
>> - What can be done to improve things
>> - A mock-up image of how you would improve things
>> - A pull request to improve things
>
> Why do people want to change the way the forums look? I quite 
> like them the way they are now, soft on the eyes, fairly good 
> layout.

To match the new dlang.org design. I'm guessing you've missed the 
other threads?

> The forums main disadvantage is features, no code highlight, no 
> formatting, no embedding content like images or videos into 
> posts, ect. Also voting on posts/threads could be very useful 
> to see what people agree with and what they dont. Right now we 
> just have people replying with "+1". This could be 
> exceptionally helpful for help/opinion request threads, the 
> best answer would be upvoted, shit answers down voted.

These issues have been previously discussed many times. (The 
conclusion summary is that since the same content needs to be 
available via multiple media - mailing lists / NNTP - content has 
to be restricted to the lowest common denominator, these features 
are controversial as the add bloat and noise, and we seem to be 
doing just fine without them). Now is not the time to discuss 
them, because the current effort is on the dlang.org redesign.

I'm sorry, but so far you still haven't provided any useful 
criticism.