On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 22:29:42 UTC, bitwise wrote:
I'm curious if there are any upgrades coming in the near future.
As a D-Newbie, I find myself combing these forums regularly to
try and get up to speed on what's going on, but there are
several things making it difficult.
-I have a valid email address in the box up there^, but I don't
receive notifications when people respond to my posts here.
-The way quotes are displayed is tough on the eyes. Rather than
having the quotes grayed out and crowded by angle brackets, I
would prefer something like stackoverflow where the text was
black, but on a gray background, possibly with black outlines
for nested quotes.
-Looking at code here is brutal. Lines wrap way too short, no
syntax highlighting. https://highlightjs.org/ supports syntax
highlighting for the D language and is very easy to implement.
And a scrollable area for code would be nice. I suppose code
sections could be signalled by leading a line with 4 spaces
like SO, or with [code] tags.
-editing and delete posts after posting would be nice, but I
assume this would be quite a bit more difficult than the above
suggestions.
If you click on the "About this forum" link on the bottom of the
page, it takes you to a page with more info. You can find the
github repo for this forum software linked from there and see all
the updates to the forum source:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/commits/master
You can submit your issues there or even pulls to fix them.
As for your last request to edit and delete posts, since this
forum is a frontend for an NNTP server, as Tobias said, which are
then sent to a mailing list also, it's not possible to edit them
once they've been posted. Not sure about deletion by users on
NNTP, certainly not on the mailing list.
