Females in the community.

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, March 24, 2016 09:39:34 Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> All in all, I'm rather certain that as soon as an actual serious
> proposal to replace forum.dlang.org with e.g. Discourse appears,
> it will face just as much, if not more, vocal disagreement.

Not only that, but given how much praise we've gotten for the forum based on
its speed and all of the good publicity that we've gotten from that,
switching to something else would just plain look bad from a PR standpoint.
I'd never have guessed that we'd get good PR out of forum software like
we've gotten, but it's obviously been a huge win for us in the PR
department.

There are occasional requests for fancier features, and for better or worse,
we can't really implement most of them thanks to the fact that the forum is
just one interface to a shared backend, but it's not like everyone in here
is clamoring for fancy forum features that more popular forum software has.
What we have works very well.

So, while it is sometimes a bit annoying to have folks come in here
suggesting new forum features, it really doesn't come up much, and it really
doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe we should figure out a way to make it
clearer that the forum software is built on top of NNTP so that folks are
less likely to ask for impossible features, but overall, what we have is a
huge win for us, and I don't see much reason to be concerned about the
occasional person who complains about how the forum software isn't "modern"
enough.

- Jonathan M Davis