How do you get comfortable with Dlang.org's Forum?

[Biocyberman]

So far so much better :)

I really appreciate all answers given so far. Sorry I haven't found a 
way to reply to everyone.

Many seems to be using the forum's web interface as a second - tier of 
interaction. I still don't know what can justify this practice.  But 
anyway, for the time being I downloaded seamonkey (because I was 
searching for a NNTP client). I actually find it easier to read the 
'forum' in Seamonkey.

As a test, I am replying directly through Seamonkey.


Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 2/23/18 8:47 AM, biocyberman wrote:
>> Want to learn something from you guys.
>>
>> forum.dlang.org is by far the biggest gathering point for Dlang users. 
>> So, even though I wanted to get away with using stackoverflow.com, I 
>> have to come back here. However, to me it easier for me, I would like 
>> to know how you guys get comfortable with using the forum?
>>
>>  From my experience with forum platforms like vBulletin, phpBB, 
>> Invision Power, and even interfaces of Google group, and Github 
>> Issues, I still find it very difficult to understand the logics of 
>> using dlang's forum. FYI, I am not a new user of internet, I'd rather 
>> consider myself someone can take pain to learn new useful things. And 
>> I've administered some forums myself. Yet I would like to name a few 
>> things below. They may irritate some hard-working contributors of 
>> dlang community. But I by no means want to make this a discussion of 
>> hate. So, how do you guys overcome these problems:
> 
> thunderbird NNTP client.
> 
>>
>> =====
>> 1. No post editting. After clicking send, and found out that you made 
>> mistakes in the post, but you can't edit the post anymore.
> 
> Meh, its possible with NNTP, but this also allows abuse of editing. I 
> don't find this that horrible. Maybe pay attention to the spelling 
> corrector?
> 
>>
>> 2. Old-day quoting presentation. I always feel reluctant to read texts 
>> that stays after two levels of quotes, like this:
>>   >First post quoted
>>   >>Second post quoted
>>   >>>Third post quoted
>>   >>Second post quoted
>> .....
> 
> Thunderbird substitutes those with nice colored bars, so I can easily 
> see the level of quotes.
> 
>>
>> 3. No Rich-text format support. No minimal bold/italic support. Some 
>> tools to emphasize important points will make it easier to let the 
>> readers know what the posters want to say.
> 
> TB has these, though I prefer plain text. It supports a crude form of 
> markdown, so *bold*, _underline_ all are enhanced by TB. Emoticons turn 
> into graphics too ;)
> 
>> 4.  No code formatting. Same feeling here. I am reluctant to post more 
>> than 5 lines of code.
> 
> You can use a link to a code sample on https://run.dlang.io/ which 
> allows your code to be tested in the browser as a bonus.
> 
>>
>> 5. No image support. In many cases a screenshots will be helpful to 
>> communicate problems.
> 
> Yeah, this is a limitation I'm not sure how it can be overcome.
> 
>> 6. Last but not least, a trendy feature: tags, keywords for threads so 
>> we can locate related threads easily.
> 
> If you want to tag posts on your own, TB does this.
> 
> -Steve