The D programming language newsgroup should lift its game

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 10:28:04 PDT 2010


Don Wrote:

> Kagamin wrote:
> > Don Wrote:
> >>> A big start would be ditching the newsgroups for proper forum software. 
> >>> I know a lot of people here prefer the newsgroups, but like it or not 
> >>> this is 2010. Newsgroups are from yesteryear.
> >> I have to say, most forums seem incredibly amateurish to me. I'm amazed 
> >> that absolute garbage like phpBB is actually still in use. Is there any 
> >> *good* forum software out there? It doesn't seem like it would be hard 
> >> to beat a newsgroup. But...
> > 
> > Any amateurish software is far better than the crappy one.
> 
> If you mean the web interface, yes that's even more amateurish. But I 
> hope nobody is seriously using that, it's just a quick hack for if you 
> don't have a newreader.

It's all I use since 99% of the time I'm reading on a mobil phone. Used in that way, digitalmars's interface is way better than anything I found for scala.



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