On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 19:20:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
That's why the d_programming twitter feed was added to the front page.
Twitter is incredibly restrictive in its format. People coming to front page want to get a detailed explained overview of latest news, not 140-symbol mysteries. Also it ties important information channel to an external closed service which is never good for the reputation.
And as cherry on top - I don't see and embedded twitter feeds on dlang.org right now ;)
In any case, Ddoc can be used to insert the contents of an "announcements" file into the front page. The problem, however, is someone has to write those announcements on a timely basis. Nobody has shown any interest in doing so, and although I've tried to do it on numerous occasions, I just lose steam rather quickly because it bores me to tears.
And how do you expect someone to show the interest? :) Currently there are no tools for proposing front page news other than making pull requests which has unacceptable latency for news anyway. Dead end!
One of best ways to have lot of contributions is making each single one as easy as possible.
