Better forum

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at 18:28:04 UTC, js.mdnq wrote:
> I have a lot of trouble with the forum. Many times a msg will 
> not post as it sits in a cycle waiting for the nntp server to 
> get the message or for it to be announced.

Sorry about that. As far as I know, this only happened twice. 
Today it happened due to a regression I introduced while 
attempting to fix another problem. Hopefully, both are fixed now.

For the record, your posts aren't getting lost - the web frontend 
just never received the message back from the NNTP server to put 
it in its local cache.

> IMO there are much better forum software out there that would 
> make it easier to communicate about D than the current method.
>
> http://www.mybb.com/ is free, pretty good, and relatively easy 
> to setup.

Such proposals have been extensively discussed in the past.

> The ability to edit a post makes life much easier too!

That wouldn't work for NNTP / email users.

The D forum is open-source, and help / contributions are welcome. 
I was actually hoping that the D community would be a bit more 
involved in its development, however for the moment I remain the 
sole author (as far as D code goes). Perhaps it is partially my 
fault, as the source code is not as organized as I would like it 
to be...