Recent discussion about discussions

[bossfong]

As a "new kid", I'm really baffled by by how much discussion in 
the developers scene is done in mailing lists.
I strongly believe that mailing-lists are not suited for heated 
discussions on very specific issues. I even belive it's 
counter-productive when comparing the discussion flow with modern 
forum software.
By modern forum software I mean discussion centric software like 
disqus[1].

My appeal is it to switch to a more modern forum software (even 
though I value really much, that the current webforum is 
implemented in D).

Is there anything specific holding us back?

[1] http://disqus.com