On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 10:27:46 UTC, tired_eyes wrote:
Having forums that are just NNTP-frontend has some disadvantages, e.g. lack of moderation and unability to wipe awful offtopics like this:
We can delete messages and ban users in extreme cases (e.g. outright spam).
So... shouldn't be mailing lists separated to webforums? At least in theory?
Separating them would mean separating the community. Many people will not check both. Before forum.dlang.org, proposals to simply set up a phpBB instance for an official web forum were rejected on the simple basis that Walter Bright and other people from the core team would not use them, which would make them a lot less useful.
