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On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 19:20:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> That's why the d_programming twitter feed was added to the 
> front page.

Twitter is incredibly restrictive in its format. People coming to 
front page want to get a detailed explained overview of latest 
news, not 140-symbol mysteries. Also it ties important 
information channel to an external closed service which is never 
good for the reputation.

And as cherry on top - I don't see and embedded twitter feeds on 
dlang.org right now ;)

> In any case, Ddoc can be used to insert the contents of an 
> "announcements" file into the front page. The problem, however, 
> is someone has to write those announcements on a timely basis. 
> Nobody has shown any interest in doing so, and although I've 
> tried to do it on numerous occasions, I just lose steam rather 
> quickly because it bores me to tears.

And how do you expect someone to show the interest? :) Currently 
there are no tools for proposing front page news other than 
making pull requests which has unacceptable latency for news 
anyway. Dead end!

One of best ways to have lot of contributions is making each 
single one as easy as possible.