On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 01:43:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/21/2018 2:41 PM, tide wrote:
What about if you accidentially press a button that posts the
comment?
That's really up to your NNTP client's design, which we didn't
implement. There are lots of NNTP clients to choose from.
Don't use a NNTP client, I prefer to just use a browser.
Why can't syntax formatting be implemented, does anyone
disagree that is a useless feature?
It's a useless feature.
Formatting is needed for longer form text, which is not really
appropriate for the forum. Forum posts should be short and to
the point - posting an article or manifesto should be posted
separately, with a link to it in the forum.
Also, there is no need to post pictures, emoji, banners, or
other cruft one sees in other forums. Especially pictures, as
those eat up server space and bandwith at a terrifying rate.
Nearly 20 years of the D forum consumes 2,800,000 4K blocks, or
somewhat over a gigabyte. Not bad.
So you've never posted a snippet of code on here? I honestly
doubt that. Syntax formatting is useful even if you only post 2
lines of code. No wonder these boards are the way they are with
opinions like that.
