More forums?

[XavierAP]

On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 05:15:13 UTC, Yatheendra wrote:
>
> This is a newbie's opinion, but I believe I'm only echoing 
> older forum messages when I say that ... the General forum is 
> too varied in the types of posts it gets.

I completely agree. I think most people use via mailing list and 
don't care and filter threads on their side, so it hasn't been 
addressed. But you see it's a real issue and can put off many 
newcomers. Because the current user base prefers mailing lists, 
the forum view is poor; but the consequence is that people who 
don't prefer mailing lists (younger?) are driven off. Whereas it 
would be very easy to fix the forum and leave the mailing list 
side working the same. On the other hand I wouldn't expect 
features not compatible with the plain mailing list e.g. karma 
but that's just bells and whistles.

General should be split, IMO first between Dlang-related and 
off-topic (even related to other languages, CS, work culture, 
etc.) Among Dlang general posts there should also be separate 
boards for procedural (e.g. DIP reviews) and informal discussion.

Announce should also be split between project releases, jobs, 
other, etc. The rest of forums are underused, probably too much 
split over here in comparison.