On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 23:16:40 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
A key required (imho) feature, the ability to edit after the
fact. The primary value that I see in any sort of embedded
user input feature is the the most streamlined way of adding
essentially bug reports about the page directly on the page.
Those reports should be acted upon and the page itself updated
after which the report dropped. The same with the essentially
unmaintained wiki page that is linked to most of the dlang.org
pages.
I'm concerned about it becoming yet another forum for
discussion. Yet another place that needs to be monitored and
maintained. Something else that will grow stale. Etc.
There's certainly value, and I've seen the value on other sites
that support per-page user comments. But there's a very real
and very important cost that comes with it.
Any suggestions?
Edit-ability precludes NNTP/mailing-list mirroring, unless some
shims like sending edits as replies are used.
I think that if we were to embed a wiki into the page directly,
it would have be much less likely to bitrot due to higher
visibility.
