Spreading the word about D

[Robert Fraser]

Koroskin Denis Wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:52 +0400, Walter Bright  
> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
> > Bill Baxter wrote:
> >> I think somebody tried that before, but to get google to mirror an NG  
> >> you have to convince google it's a major enough NG to be worth  
> >> mirroring.   Apparently they weren't convinced at the time.
> >>  Certainly worth giving it another shot I suppose.  Eventually if  
> >> enough people ask, you'd have to think they'd decide that it's easier  
> >> to just mirror the darned thing than keep dealing with all the requests  
> >> to mirror it.
> >
> > I've sent repeated requests to Google to pick up the n.g. which they've  
> > ignored. I've thought since that might not be a bad thing, as we don't  
> > get a whole lot of spam here.
> >
> > I like the reddit comment system a lot. I read it's open source now. If  
> > it could be used in conjunction with the n.g., that would be ideal.
> >
> > (In conjunction meaning that the reddit would be the "web interface" to  
> > the n.g.)
> >
> > The web interface used now sucks, but it is the only one we found that  
> > would even work. It is open source, and anyone is free to try and  
> > improve it.
> 
> I enjoy the solution found by Sony very much:
> 
> All their console game development discussion is concentrated in  
> newsgroup, that can be accessed via web interface as a full-featured forum  
> (with login, statistics, search etc. Think of phpbb, for example). At the  
> end of each message there is a www link to the it to be accessed from a  
> browser. I found it very handy!
> 
> Most people are more used to forums, not newsgroups. Maybe we should write  
> a wrapper one for D newsgroups and put it into this new site?

How is that different than what we have (except we should have a good
one)? If we added the ability to embed sound effects & music to posts
made on the web interface, we'd be getting somewhere.