H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:01:44PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 17:56:29 UTC, Biocyberman wrote:
Speaking on behalf of myself, after additional inputs from many
excellent and respectful users in this 'forum'. I can say that, on
the scale of 1 (least geeky) to 10 (most geeky), I would put
forum.dlang.org to the level 8 of geekiness required to use the
forum. It may be natural for long-time users, but for newcomers, it
is very challenging.
Hold it right there.
You're saying that it's a bad thing for a *programming language* forum
to have a high geekiness rating? Implying that *programmers* (y'know,
ostensibly the target audience of said forum) are not geeky enough to
know how to operate a geeky forum?
Whoa. I think I need to sit down.
I don't mean to go into the good vs bad direction. What I was saying is
that it is hard to get comfortable and use the forum the most
effective/convenient ways. The forum should not be a technical barrier
for members to communicate conveniently.
With that said, I am glad that I put up the questions and got a bunch of
useful tips to use the forums. FYI, the most useful one is to install a
NNTP client and use the 'forum' the way it is, a NNTP server with a web
interface.
I have to admit that I don't understand this. I don't think it would
be possible for it to be simpler to use this forum. No registration
needed, plain text messages, just click "Reply" and type in your
message. Additional features would make it more complicated.
Well, obviously non-programmers (or should I say, "non-geeky
programmers", whatever that might mean) have every right to be able to
operate a forum dedicated for a programming language without any undue
handicaps, so we have to make concessions on the level of "geekiness"
required to participate in the programming language discussions that
take place here, such that said discussions would be more accessible to
said non-programmers (or "non-geeky" programmers, whoever they may be).
P.S. I think my geekiness-11 brain just blew several fuses and 2
transistors. Please excuse me while I take a break to go off to the
brain shop to replace them. Maybe I'll pick up an oxymoron compensation
diode on the way as well.
We need to take a break sometimes, too much geekiness everywhere slows
us down. At least that my experience.
> T
