I've noticed an increase in the number of people coming to these
forums (particularly .learn) for help with some of the tools and
libraries in the D ecosystem. Some of these projects have their
own forums, others don't. I think it would be beneficial to have
a new group on the news server, something like
digitalmars.D.thirdparty. I see a few benefits from this:
* it helps keep .D and .learn focused on DMD and the language
* it gives us one place to point people to for help with libraries
* it gives library developers with no forum space a place to
offer support for their libraries
Back in the dsource days it wasn't so bad having separate forums
from the newsgroups because they were all hosted in one place.
IMO, it added to the cohesion of the community. New users don't
always turn to the newsgroups, but they often showed up on
dsource to look for help with specific projects. Now, while many
D projects are hosted at github, the maintainers are on their own
when it comes to support forums. D users may need to create
multiple forum accounts for the projects that have them, while
turning to .learn or #D for those that don't. New users have
nothing guiding them into the main channels of communication.
That cohesion of the community is gone.
Thoughts?
