forum.dlang.org moved to a new server

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 03:08:49 UTC, John J wrote:
> Thank you! It's pretty fast now!! :)
>
> Btw, I have been using Thunderbird and I frequently see the 
> already read threads (mostly messages of the existing threads) 
> suddenly appear as unread (in bold). Is this happening from 
> your end? If so can you please fix it?
>
> It quickly gets boring to read the same messages over and over 
> thinking they are brand new.. Looks like some kind of 
> synchronization problem..

???

I don't see how Thunderbird is related to the forum... Both 
Thunderbird and the forum software are newsgroup clients (they 
both connect to news.digitalmars.com to get and post articles). 
There is no way for the forum to know which messages you've 
marked as read, because Thunderbird does not upload that 
information to the server - it's only stored locally. And even if 
Thunderbird did upload this information to news.digitalmars.com, 
DFeed would still have to know how to ask and obtain that 
information from the server, and identify you among other users 
(which would be tricky, considering you don't need to provide any 
identifying information to download articles)...

I suppose that DFeed could have its own NNTP server (similarly to 
what Vibe.news does), allow logging in with the forum 
username/password, and mark messages downloaded via NNTP as 
"read" in the web interface...

> Searching these newsgroups in Thunderbird now works, and it 
> works pretty fast too!

Again not sure how that's related...