More forums?

[JN]

On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 05:15:13 UTC, Yatheendra wrote:
> Hi [D-zens?],
>
> 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 mean, not just 
> posts that should be in Learn, but also fairly advanced topics 
> that lurkers-turned-tentative-triers need to filter out 
> initially (debates on core semantics & DIPs jump to mind).
>

I agree. I think a good place to start would be to separate 
Announcements into official announcements (new D version, new DIP 
approved, new team members) and ecosystem announcements (new 
library version, new tutorial series, new website about D).

Another section that I'd love to see is something like "What are 
people working on" or "Projects under development". A place where 
people share their WIP projects they're working on. Right now 
there's no place for such projects. Learn doesn't fit it, 
Announcements is for finished projects and General is more for 
language discussions. I think it would be great for the community 
to be able to see what others are using D for and be able to 
comment on that. Remember dsource? http://dsource.org/projects/ 
Look how many exciting projects there were. Sure, most of them 
didn't go anywhere, but it was nice to see what people are trying 
to do. Same for dsource forums - http://dsource.org/forums/ so 
much fun activity and discussion of projects.