On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:10:45 UTC, nbro wrote:
2. Forums, like this one, could definitely be improved by adding markdown as a markup language to edit and style posts. There should also be the possibility to edit already posted questions and answers, and the edit as well as the original answer or question should be somehow visible and recoverable, similar to SO.
Currently, the forum is simply a web interface to the D newsgroup server. It is not not a stand alone forum. There is also a mailing list interface to the newsgroups. Implementing editing, markdown, or anything specific to the forums is a bit problematic because of how it would be reflected in the newsgroups and the mailing list. That said, I've got a post coming to the blog tomorrow that will talk about future plans for the forums.
4. These forums require us to provide an e-mail, even if it's invalid. I don't understand why. We could just do that only registered users can post and that the e-mail address is visible only if the registered user wants to show it.
Vladimir can answer authoritatively, but I believe this is because of RFC 850, which requires an email in USENET message headers.
