Engine of forum

[Ali]

On Monday, 20 August 2018 at 09:52:01 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> What are the specific problems solved or opportunities realised 
> by moving to a real forum?

What are the specific problems solved by using better software?

Well, most software projects, have different channels of 
communications,
some use forums, some use newsgroups, some use irc, some use 
slack, some rely on stackoverflow, some have an active wiki

But each project usually have one channel that is really the go 
to place to get help

I strongly believe that a better forum, that allow users some 
personalization and flexibility, will help grow the community, 
and growing the community is a good objective

Every now and then someone new to D comes and ask, why arent we 
using better forum software. And the replies they get are usually 
of the type, that this works for the current users and its not 
worth the effort to switch to something else

Many of those new comers who ask about the forum software .. they 
never stick, they dont complain, or question, or try to change 
for the better, they simply leave

You can not really measure how much the D community might have 
lost, by resisting the repeat demand of using a better forum ... 
and its not like D have other channels