working on the dlang.org website

[Walter Bright]

On 7/15/2013 1:11 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 19:54:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Given how enormously popular Twitter is for breaking news and announcements, I
>> think you're wrong about that.
>
> I have just check web pages for several popular programming languages and have
> found zero using twitter instead of a news feed. Popular? Applying general
> statistics (internet users) to an extremely narrow specialized group of people
> (programming language consumers) is not going to work.

Watch the news - many times the news reporters will remark that they not only 
get their breaking news from twitter, they'll show the tweets as part of the 
broadcast.

Twitter for news is mainstream.


> It is a service that belongs to specific corporation and is completely
> controlled by one providing no means for federation and/or self-hosting. Random
> move from Twitter and D web site can loose its only news feed. Outsourcing
> primary infrastructure does not smell good.

If twitter ceases to be useful, we'll move to something else. Note that we also 
rely on github and Amazon S3. We do self-host this n.g., which has been nice in 
keeping it fairly free of spam & trolls.


> Which mostly highlights how awesome some members of D community are :) But why
> not lower entry barrier?

Because somebody has to step up and do the work for that. Note that there is no 
paid IT infrastructure staff. Change is driven by somebody self-appointing 
themselves champion and driving their agenda forward.


> By the way, I have already asked a question in that
> regard - if someone comes up with a more dynamic web site implementation which
> is still based on D stack, will it be accepted?

If it is obviously awesome, sure. If it isn't, or if it is only marginally 
better, or same only different, then no.