On Sun 27 Nov 2011 11:41:01 AM CST, alex wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just wondered why there still is this uncomfortable and obviously outdated > newsgroup software in use. > > Perhaps it'd be more contemporary to have a 'real' browser-based forum to > which everyone can register and post D-related questions&answers. > > So, my recommendation would be to establish a forum based on phpBB or a > similar framework software (btw, it's free and open source, so don't worry > about possible > costs!) at forum.d-programming-language.org > > > To give D a further community 'push', I and a friend of mine really would > like to set up all required things if wanted. > > The reason I'm asking the newsgroup directly is to have the forum that can be > reachedunder the official D internet URL, so that it won't be a 'third-party' > driven one > or something like that. > > > Even if this idea should be a bit too 'large', please do fix the http > interface for the D main newsgroup thread - it's not working for me and only > gives back a > connection timeout. >
I would definitely be interested in a forum. But only if it has the following: a separate off topic area definite rules about what is and what is not allowed. permabans if it was associated with d-p-l, keep with the colors and general theme (just a preference) support threaded and flat views. and I'd prefer a way to turn off emoticons. just ideas: ideone has support for D(2.042 not too far behind), it'd be great if there was some kind of integration with that (post a code snippet, post the output, if that is possible then it shouldn't be too hard to hide everything outside of main()) http://ideone.com/api yeah i know, but it you have to admit that it would be awesome.
