On 3/24/2016 2:39 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
"Sticky" threads on typical web forums are used to post things such as FAQs or
things people should read before posting. Essentially, in pretty much all cases,
this feature is used as a poor way to change the website in general in order to
bring some things to users' attention.
If the latter feature becomes required, since we have full control over the
forum website's contents as a whole, we can look at how we can implement that
feature properly (e.g. by adding a notice at the top of the thread list, or to
the "create new thread" form, etc.)
Still, I think this feature is only really necessary for websites where "the
forum is the website". We could just as well post important information to
dlang.org.
Such things belong on the wiki, not in the forum. I agree we don't need sticky
threads, in fact, they'd be a nuisance as they raise pointless bikeshed
controversies over whether something should be in the wiki or the stiki.
I am continuously collecting (constructive) feedback about the forum. Last year
I made an overhaul and implemented nearly all feature requests. If you have
specific requests for improvement, please create a GitHub issue:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/issues
Just to reiterate, you have done an awesome job with this and DFeed is a great
resource and showcase for D.
All in all, I'm rather certain that as soon as an actual serious proposal to
replace forum.dlang.org with e.g. Discourse appears, it will face just as much,
if not more, vocal disagreement. You can always create a poll or something if
you wish - out of curiosity, since as mentioned above, you'll have a hard time
convincing the people who are actually working on D to switch.
There's little to no chance of convincing me. Many of the things people complain
about with NNTP are features I prefer :-)
