The D programming language newsgroup should lift its game

[Walter Bright]

Mike Parker wrote:
> My favorite is SMF [1], which you can see in action at [2] and [3].

Here's a link:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=374244.0

It is typical of web forum software and has the usual problems:

1. no threaded display, it's difficult to see who is replying to what.

2. Lots of irrelevant and annoying pictures, multiple fonts, borders, ads, etc. 
The focus is on glitz rather than content.

3. It seems that less than half of the browser window is actually taken up by 
the meat, and in a painfully small font, too. If you've got a small screen, like 
on say a portable, it's hopeless.

Yes, I suppose it's all customizable, but nearly all forum software follows this 
style, and blows for the same reasons.


I know the php web interface to the D newsgroups sucks. I make no apologies for it.

The only web forum software I actually like is reddit.com and the similar one at 
ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, it has no interface to newsgroups. Digg and 
slashdot suck with their awful interfaces.