There's a problem in the D economic system

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 11:31:33 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:

>> 
>> First, I don't think you "screwed up" personally. It's a 
>> structural issue within the DLF. Someone sets up a bounty 
>> system that is not used, because people don't really know 
>> about it.
>
> It was well known at the time.

>
>> I couldn't find a prominent link to it on dlang.org. Is there 
>> one? If yes, my bad that I didn't spot it.
>
> You won't. It never graduated the initial advertisement stage 
> because nobody was putting money into it (in amounts that 
> mattered).

So what happened? Why wasn't there a link on the homepage that 
said "Set & Get Bounties", and why wasn't it brought to the 
public's attention regularly? It's not rocket science, it's 
marketing basics.

> There is a lot more money flowing around now (partly because of 
> Symmetry) then there was when bountysource was last tried.

So let's use it!