Any upgrades planned for D forums?
bitwise via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jan 12 07:41:31 PST 2015
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 05:28:57 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 22:29:42 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> I'm curious if there are any upgrades coming in the near
>> future.
>>
>> As a D-Newbie, I find myself combing these forums regularly to
>> try and get up to speed on what's going on, but there are
>> several things making it difficult.
>>
>> -I have a valid email address in the box up there^, but I
>> don't receive notifications when people respond to my posts
>> here.
>>
>> -The way quotes are displayed is tough on the eyes. Rather
>> than having the quotes grayed out and crowded by angle
>> brackets, I would prefer something like stackoverflow where
>> the text was black, but on a gray background, possibly with
>> black outlines for nested quotes.
>>
>> -Looking at code here is brutal. Lines wrap way too short, no
>> syntax highlighting. https://highlightjs.org/ supports syntax
>> highlighting for the D language and is very easy to implement.
>> And a scrollable area for code would be nice. I suppose code
>> sections could be signalled by leading a line with 4 spaces
>> like SO, or with [code] tags.
>>
>> -editing and delete posts after posting would be nice, but I
>> assume this would be quite a bit more difficult than the above
>> suggestions.
>
> If you click on the "About this forum" link on the bottom of
> the page, it takes you to a page with more info. You can find
> the github repo for this forum software linked from there and
> see all the updates to the forum source:
>
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/commits/master
>
> You can submit your issues there or even pulls to fix them.
>
> As for your last request to edit and delete posts, since this
> forum is a frontend for an NNTP server, as Tobias said, which
> are then sent to a mailing list also, it's not possible to edit
> them once they've been posted. Not sure about deletion by
> users on NNTP, certainly not on the mailing list.
Awesome, Thanks. I'll check it out. Even black on gray comments
alone would go a long way for readability.
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