[OT] Re: Tango heap is dangerous

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:gd84oj$85u$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.
>

None of that is anything that's inherent to web forums. There's nothing 
preventing a web forum from not suffering from any of that. Many of those 
things, including "what you've read or not read" are things I've seen web 
forums not have any problem with.

Though I admit, in the time I've been using this newsgroup I've come to 
prefer newsgoups for many of the reasons people have mentioned, and for the 
same resons I prefer a real email client over webmail (whenever I'm at my 
own computer, anyway). The only thing that really bothers me about 
newsgroups is when websites aren't clear about the name of their newsgroup 
server. The newsgroup name is always mentioned, but the server name 
sometimes gets glossed over, so you have to guess.