[OT] Re: Tango heap is dangerous
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 16 12:30:27 PDT 2008
Robert M. Münch wrote:
> I totally agree!! Web-Forums are a step back in time (bad useage pattern
> only "modern" cosmetics), they are one of those things absolutly not
> necessary. Newsgroups are simple to use, fast, and I can handle them all
> with one client.
I also tire of the avatars people use, and the great deal of vertical
screen real estate a single message takes up. It's also hard to follow
threads, as everything gets linearized. Worst, it's hard to tell what
messages you've read and what you haven't. I really like with n.g. I can
see at a glance what's new, and what I haven't read yet. I can also tag
particular postings with color for my own reasons. Forum software seems
oriented towards glitter rather than functionality.
The reddit forum software is the best, but it still stinks as it's very
hard to go back to a page and see what is new since you last looked at it.
To be fair, with n.g. the backquoting is often excessive.
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