Fixed date to move to ddox for Phobos documentation

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 10 10:46:47 PDT 2016


On 6/10/16 1:33 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/10/16 3:17 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> I'd want to disable or replace discourse before we make it our official
>> documentation. We could easily self-host some commenting functionality
>> if deemed necessary, but adding an unmaintained communication channel
>> isn't the best idea IMO.
>
> I'm a bit bummed about that. I like it. Is my understanding incorrect
> that disqus is fairly established by now? I see it on a bunch of legit
> sites, and it seems to add value to those as it could add to ours.

I can see a good reason to have a disqus forum for each page, as I have 
found tremendous value from the php.net forums on each symbol (with 
common tricks to use with the given function).

But the problem is, people will ask questions on these forums, and 
likely will not get answers. I know I'm not going to peruse the docs 
looking for questions to answer. It's like adding 1000 black holes for 
newbies to get trapped in.

So what would be the use cases? If we have legitimate reasons to have 
it, that aren't better solved by routing back to the D forums, or back 
to github itself (e.g. if you have a trick to post, instead of using 
disqus, create a PR with the example!).

-Steve


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