discussions on the announce forum/list?

[Walter Bright]

On 7/15/2019 8:04 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 7/15/2019 6:55 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> But *please do not discuss the blog post or its topic in this thread*! Use the 
>> post in the Announce forum for that:
>>
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/hetwxvibgqcmoltvnoda@forum.dlang.org
> 
> Wait, what?  Why are we encouraging / having _discussions_ on the _announce_ 
> list?  I know we've never prevented them in the past, but this is probably the 
> first time I've seen active encouragement.  While I'm not an particularly active 
> member of the community these days, I strongly disagree with this policy.

It was mainly to avoid people having to read both threads.