Better forums

[Morbid.Obesity via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 02:31:15 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 02:13:13 UTC, Morbid.Obesity wrote:
>> I suggest that subforums be used for specific topics or a tag 
>> based system like stack overflow.
>
> I think we should just use stack overflow for that. A forum is 
> kinda chatty and not that great for searching anyway - even if 
> you find something, there might be fifty posts between question 
> and answer. The SO model tries to avoid that and I think we 
> might as well just use it.
>
> Remember we can ask and answer our own questions on SO too, so 
> we could archive things there with that method.

Yes, I think the SO works, D forums comes up about half way. 
Again, D forums may work right now but at some point they won't 
assuming D takes off. The benefit of switching not, rather than 
later is that it will make the later, sooner.