forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2015-06-05 14:57, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> 1. People receiving messages through NNTP/mailing lists will not see the
> formatted Markdown. Although Markdown's goal is to be readable in its
> plain text source code, it still allows many situations in which the
> source is misleading or difficult to understand. For example, special
> characters need to be escaped by a backslash, which can create confusion
> in the presence of other special characters. (Are they part of the D
> syntax the user is describing, or something else?) Some syntax such as
> tables or images can also be not very readable in source form.

Some people are already sending something that looks like Markdown, i.e. 
``` for code blocks. Even your post can be rendered as Markdown.

> 2. How should we render messages sent by NNTP/mailing-list users? Do we
> just assume that they're sending Markdown and render it as such? This
> can cause the messages to appear broken to forum users. Or do we only
> render Markdown if the post was sent from the forum? This means that
> when NNTP/ML users quote forum users' text it will be shown as plain text.
>
> 3. There is no unified standard for Markdown. The original format is not
> used on major sites today - StackOverflow and GitHub extend the format,
> and users will expect Markdown with those extensions.

That standard would be the one GibHub uses.

> 5. You can't edit posts once sent. This means that if you accidentally
> messed up the formatting (e.g. you pasted code without padding it with
> whitespace or surrounding it in ```...``` blocks), you can't go back and
> edit it now.

A preview button/view would (hopefully) solve that.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg