forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

[sigod via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 09:53:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, June 05, 2015 09:16:29 sigod via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:52:07 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
>> wrote:
>> > On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:48:20 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> >> How feasible is it to add code formatting for the web 
>> >> interface?
>> >
>> > Not sure what you mean. Do you mean syntax highlighting for 
>> > D code?
>> >
>> > If you mean the rewrapping issues with forum.dlang.org, 
>> > those should be fixed now. Code (and other text with hard 
>> > line breaks) should be sent and displayed as-is.
>>
>> How about markdown support? It can have completely client-side 
>> implementation.
>
> Remember that the forum software is just a frontend for an nntp 
> server and that others view the content via nntp or via the 
> mailing list.

This just scares off users who doesn't have experience with all 
this stuff. And I believe now there's much more users, who 
doesn't even heard of NNTP, than whose who worked with it.

> So, it doesn't make any sense to support features that involve 
> anything other than plain text. It would just result in 
> garbage/cruft in the messages for those viewing it elsewhere 
> than the forums.

Markdown in a raw format is very readable. As for me, it's easier 
to read raw markdown than mix of text and code.

> So, while it might be nice to have markdown if we were dealing 
> purely with forum software, we're not, so it doesn't make sense.

I don't see a reason why forum cannot have features on it's own. 
Especially, when this features won't significantly affect other 
ways to access the same information.