New web newsreader - requesting participation

[Eric Poggel]

On 1/31/2011 5:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Adam Ruppe wrote:
>> In the other newsgroup, I've been talking about a little
>> web news program I've been writing as a spinoff of the
>> potential new homepage idea.
>
> That is great news. I've been wanting to do one for years! I haven't
> looked much at yours yet, but here's my ideas anyway :-)
>
> 1. Can use web interface or nntp interface
> 2. web interface looks sort of like reddit, i.e. all posts on a thread
> 3. users can post anonymously
> 4. web interfaces supports logins - logged in users can vote up or down
> on posts
> 5. web interface can mark posts as read or unread - fixing my beef with
> reddit that there's no reasonable way to scan a thread for new posts
> 6. an easy way for moderators to delete spam
> 7. runs on 64 bit FreeBSD (what the Digital Mars server runs on), yes, I
> know that means I have to get 64 bit dmd on FreeBSD working!
>
>
> I can contribute the code that generates the D archive pages from the
> news postings.

I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open 
source--why not run our own deployment of it for D?  It seems that these 
changes would require minimal changes to the code base, except for nntp 
access.  But I guess I don't understand the benefits of it over a 
web-based solution.