forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 02:11:17 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 02:03:48 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 02:02:11 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote:
>>> Sorry if this question has been raised but is the reason for 
>>> the inability to edit posts?
>>
>> Posts are not editable because once sent, they are relayed to 
>> the NNTP server, mailing lists, and users' email inboxes.
>>
>>> Will be this feature implemented sometime?
>>
>> Only when it becomes possible to edit a sent email.
>
> Ok, why we use email/NNTP server instead of simple 
> database/file storage?
> Do we use some free mail server, or we must support some old 
> infrastructure?

Yes, this forum was created explicitly to replace Web-News, an 
NNTP newsreader. Initially all communication was done via NNTP 
(Web-News or a desktop NNTP client) and mailing lists. The last 
time I checked, only 50% of posters used forum.dlang.org, others 
used NNTP or mailing lists.

If it weren't for this requirement, we might have used an 
off-the-shelf web forum, such as phpBB.