newsgroup web viewer

[bcs]

On 11/15/2011 09:54 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/15/11 8:38 PM, bcs wrote:
>> On 11/15/2011 06:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> I've complained about the godawful web viewers for the newsgroup
>>> before, and wrote a little program to do a better job.
>>>
>>> But, I got distracted and didn't quite finish it. I didn't like
>>> how it looked primarily.
>>>
>>> Today, I dropped it into the skeleton of d-programming-language.org
>>> and now I pretty much like how it looks:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/get-thread?newsgroup=digitalmars.D&messageId=%3Cj9ps5n%2430nq%241%40digitalmars.com%3E&ordering=ByDate
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My goal is to present the newsgroup in a more web forum like way, so
>>> it's more comfortable to more users.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a lot of interest in this kind of thing among the community?
>>
>> Very bluntly, the most noticeable difference (aside from pure style
>> issues) is that you have included the think I **HATE** the most about
>> Web Forums:
>>
>> You have completely obscured the structure of the news groups.
>
> No need to worry about that. Only digitalmars.D.announce posts will be
> there, and there's little structure to them. Essentially we want to
> publish just announcements.
>

I don't need to worry about it until NNTP access is shut off. The only 
time I use a web interface is when I don't have access to my own system.