On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:44:36 +0900 Mike Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/28/2012 2:53 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > > Is it built on top of NNTP? If not, then it's a no-go right off the > > bat. forum.dlang.org isn't really a forum in the normal sense. It's > > merely a web interface for a newsgroup, and many of us access it > > either through newsreaders or as a mailing list and never use the > > web interface at all. > > > > This is why I've never liked the 'forum' moniker being used here. > Regardless of what it means in the real world, the word means a very > specific thing in web parlance. And I'm sure that many newcomers > aren't going to realize that the web interface actually is a web > interface to an NNTP server. That inevitably is going to lead to > comparisons with existing web forum packages, which really aren't > relevant. Of course, it's possible to implement such features on top > of what already exists, but given that those sort of things can't > propagate to the NG or the mailing list interface, it's rather > pointless. > > I would have been happier to see a real forum in the first place (way > back when). For several years now, the D newsgroups have been the > only reason I keep a newsgroup client installed. But we really > shouldn't be calling the web interface a forum, because in internet > terms it really isn't. I see it as being the same thing, the only real key difference is whether the backend happens to be through SQL or NNTP, and that's just an implementation detail.
