Mike Parker wrote:
Jordi wrote:
Kyle Mallory wrote:
On 4/1/10 10:51 PM, Justin Johansson wrote:
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
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Kyle
I second all this. I understand D is not a "corporative" project
backed up by a huge marketing team or anything like that, but better
managing of its image and communication channels (in usability and
appearance) would help it a lot.
A big start would be ditching the newsgroups for proper forum software.
I know a lot of people here prefer the newsgroups, but like it or not
this is 2010. Newsgroups are from yesteryear. People who weren't online
in their heyday don't expect to have to use them (for that matter, there
are those who *were* around and don't expect to have to use them). When
someone checks out a project for the first time, it's quite common these
days that one of the first stops is the project's forums. No forums? Ah
well, too bad. Next project.
These days, you can't expect people to have a newsreader installed by
default. Nor can they be expected to know how to use one. [...]
You can expect them to learn to use a programming language like D, but
not how to install a news reader?
-Lars
