On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 22:25:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I've been asked why I have reduced my presence in this forum -
and politely told it's being missed :o) - and the simple answer
is I've noticed the forum discussions produce few results
outside the forum. I'm still looking for the perfect formula
that combines good forum engagement with palpable work.
Thanks,
Andrei
Well.. all I can say..is be careful.
If you make this forum like the FreeBSD forums, then people will
stop engaging, and there goes your community....(i.e go off topic
in those forums and see what happens to you).
Disussions lead to discusions..lead to discussions...that's
normal human behaviour.
Unexpected (OT) results can be useful for the D community too...
Perhaps some way to mark our thread as OT would be good. Then one
could filter out OT discussion. But any attempt to stop OT
discussion will come back and bite the community I believe.
Humans' like discussing things too.
This thread did lead to some unintended outcomes, like me finding
that gdc will compile code that dmd and ldc will not -
apparentaly a bug in gdc, but a bug that I actually like. It lead
(I hope) to a greater understanding of the importance of FreeBSD
and the need for D to pro-actively support it (remember FreeBSD
really is the only mature open source alternative to gpl Linux -
but it gets treated as a second class citizen by far too many
(e.g. the latested LDC release anouncement provides binaries for
all platforms except FreeBSD??).
And most importantly, OT discussion in this thread may lead to a
DMD for DOS! Now tell me that wasn't worth some OT discussion ;-)
