On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
Want to learn something from you guys.
forum.dlang.org is by far the biggest gathering point for Dlang
users. So, even though I wanted to get away with using
stackoverflow.com, I have to come back here. However, to me it
easier
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 20:09:22 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 07:33:05 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 19:30:52 UTC, Patrick
Schluter wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 18:46:50 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 2/24/18
On 02/03/2018 3:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
On 02/28/2018 12:48 PM, Vang Le wrote:
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
On 02/28/2018 12:48 PM, Vang Le wrote:
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
H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:01:44PM +, 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
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 07:33:05 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 19:30:52 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 18:46:50 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 2/24/18 7:00 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
[...]
Wow, that's insane. I would be
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 19:30:52 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 18:46:50 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 2/24/18 7:00 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 04:41:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
[...]
Last week I saw a video
On 2/25/18 5:03 AM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 25 February 2018 at 01:49:05 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 25/02/2018 2:31 PM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
NNTP is not the future..it's the past.
Good news, mailing lists will exist long after we're all dead and gone.
We don't actually
On Sunday, 25 February 2018 at 01:49:05 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 25/02/2018 2:31 PM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
NNTP is not the future..it's the past.
Good news, mailing lists will exist long after we're all dead
and gone.
We don't actually die, cause every atom in our body is billions
On 02/24/2018 08:31 PM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
NNTP is not the future..it's the past.
Uhh, so? This isn't fasion. Merit matters, not fad-compliance.
On 25/02/2018 2:31 PM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
NNTP is not the future..it's the past.
Good news, mailing lists will exist long after we're all dead and gone.
Right along with those stupid little phpbb installs.
You'd have to transition some very massive and important projects off of
it and
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 20:29:34 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Yeah, the immutability of NNTP posts is a feature, not a bug.
but aren't git changes essentially immutable too?
as long is there is a history of the changes, there is no problem
with changes.
I'm really only interested in
On 2/23/2018 8:41 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
+1. In the old days, it was called "bait and switch". After people reply
to an initial post, edit it and change it into something else
completely. It was one of the trolls' favorite tools.
Yeah, the immutability of NNTP posts is a feature, not a bug.
It
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 18:46:50 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 2/24/18 7:00 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 04:41:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
[...]
Last week I saw a video showing how a forum was shutdown
because it was alledgedly full of racists.
On 2/24/18 7:00 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 04:41:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 04:18:29AM +, MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
> 1. No post editing...
You should be
On 2/24/18 1:18 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
On 02/23/2018 10:18 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
TB has these, though I prefer plain text. It supports a crude form of
markdown, so *bold*, _underline_ all are enhanced by TB. Emoticons
turn into graphics too ;)
I turned those off
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 14:25:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
If there is one change that I would really like, it's dark theme
I used to use Firefox Addon 'Colour That Site!' but its not
available for current Firefox version. Today the built-in Reader
Mode might just do it (click the
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 04:41:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 04:18:29AM +, MattCoder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
> 1. No post editing...
You should be grateful for this, because I hate systems like:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 22:01:44 UTC, bachmeier 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
On 02/23/2018 11:57 AM, Kagamin wrote:
Bold and italic is a wrong way to format text because it's visual
formatting that lacks semantic.
Bleh. That's actually my #1 favortie example for how the web world has
gone completely, utterly insane.
For one thing, bold and italic have *always*
On 02/23/2018 10:18 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
TB has these, though I prefer plain text. It supports a crude form of
markdown, so *bold*, _underline_ all are enhanced by TB. Emoticons turn
into graphics too ;)
I turned those off in my TB installation. I hate having my software
On 02/23/2018 11:24 PM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
(in the 90's companies made their name for not being Microsoft. As
Microsoft wanted to dominate the world. I wonder if that same situation
exists now, except, now its not being Google).
Oh, it DEFINITELY does. The only difference is that
On 02/23/2018 08:47 AM, biocyberman wrote:
From my experience with forum platforms like vBulletin, phpBB, Invision
Power, and even interfaces of Google group, and Github Issues, I still
find it very difficult to understand the logics of using dlang's forum.
I really don't see what there
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 04:18:29AM +, MattCoder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
> > 1. No post editing...
>
> You should be grateful for this, because I hate systems like: Forums,
> Reddit and whatever, where people can edit/delete
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 04:13:15 UTC, Johannes Loher
wrote:
There are Browser extensions gor this (e.g.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-themes-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en)
Hey. thanks for the tip.
though..I just refuse to use chrome ;-)
(in
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
1. No post editing...
You should be grateful for this, because I hate systems like:
Forums, Reddit and whatever, where people can edit/delete posts
changing the context of things.
MattCoder.
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 02:27:27 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 01:53:48 UTC, Ali Çehreli
wrote:
On 02/23/2018 06:25 AM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> If there is one change that I would really like, it's dark
theme
I've never needed myself but most browsers
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 01:53:48 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 02/23/2018 06:25 AM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> If there is one change that I would really like, it's dark
theme
I've never needed myself but most browsers allow overriding
themes.
Ali
yeah..I tried this a while back, but
On 02/23/2018 06:25 AM, psychoticRabbit wrote:
> If there is one change that I would really like, it's dark theme
I've never needed myself but most browsers allow overriding themes.
Ali
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 18:51:45 UTC, Biocyberman wrote:
I think it has much to do with setting expectation right.
Haven't used dfeed, I had trouble understanding dlang's forum
but much less trouble with others.
Well... D users will reach a some critical mass, at some point,
whereby
On Friday, February 23, 2018 18:56:29 Biocyberman via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> We may need a survey to have a good overview about users opinions.
>
> 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
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:01:44PM +, 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
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
Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
From my experience with forum platforms like vBulletin, phpBB,
Invision Power, and even interfaces of Google group, and Github
Issues, I still find it very difficult to understand the logics of
using dlang's forum.
We may need a survey to have a good overview about users opinions.
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
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
From my experience with forum platforms like vBulletin, phpBB,
Invision Power, and even interfaces of Google group, and Github
Issues, I still find it very difficult to understand the logics
of using dlang's forum.
You make it
On Friday, February 23, 2018 16:51:01 Biocyberman via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> So far so much better :)
>
> I really appreciate all answers given so far. Sorry I haven't found a
> way to reply to everyone.
>
> Many seems to be using the forum's web interface as a second - tier of
> interaction. I
On Friday, February 23, 2018 15:03:01 jmh530 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:55:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>
> wrote:
> > dlang's "forum" is really a newsgroup. It's accessible via
> > NNTP, mailing list, and the web interface. Many of us never use
> > the web interface,
So far so much better :)
I really appreciate all answers given so far. Sorry I haven't found a
way to reply to everyone.
Many seems to be using the forum's web interface as a second - tier of
interaction. I still don't know what can justify this practice. But
anyway, for the time being I
I didn't mean the human part, meant the forum's functionality.
Ali wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
Want to learn something from you guys.
I would like to know how you guys get comfortable with using the forum?
Dlang forum in my opinion, is one of the
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 14:47:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:55:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
And none of the features that you're talking about really make
sense when you're dealing with NNTP or a mailing list. It's
all just plain text.
Well, nntp
On 2/23/18 8:47 AM, biocyberman wrote:
Want to learn something from you guys.
forum.dlang.org is by far the biggest gathering point for Dlang users.
So, even though I wanted to get away with using stackoverflow.com, I
have to come back here. However, to me it easier for me, I would like to
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
So, even though I wanted to get away with using
stackoverflow.com
A bunch of us are on stackoverflow too, and it could use some
more stuff. I like SO for archiving too, even if you get an
answer here, SO is a lot easier to
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:55:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
dlang's "forum" is really a newsgroup. It's accessible via
NNTP, mailing list, and the web interface. Many of us never use
the web interface, and the functionality in the web interface
is limited, because all it's doing is
On Friday, February 23, 2018 14:52:33 JN via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
> > =
> > 1. No post editting. After clicking send, and found out that
> > you made mistakes in the post, but you can't edit the post
> > anymore.
> >
> > 2.
On 02/23/2018 03:52 PM, JN wrote:
(or there is a hidden threaded mode I am not aware of?).
Click on "Settings" in the upper right corner. There you can change the
"view mode" to threaded.
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
=
1. No post editting. After clicking send, and found out that
you made mistakes in the post, but you can't edit the post
anymore.
2. Old-day quoting presentation. I always feel reluctant to
read texts that stays after two
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:55:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
And none of the features that you're talking about really make
sense when you're dealing with NNTP or a mailing list. It's all
just plain text.
Well, nntp actually supports basically all that stuff: you can do
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
Want to learn something from you guys.
I would like to know how you guys get comfortable with using
the forum?
Dlang forum in my opinion, is one of the most tolerant and
friendly programming language forums
So the experience
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
If I may say it honestly, and despite the useful 'save unsent
draft' feature, the forum is by far the most user-unfriendly
forum platform ever
So, to your question: "How do you get comfortable with
Dlang.org's
On Friday, February 23, 2018 13:47:16 biocyberman via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> If I may say it honestly, and despite the useful 'save unsent
> draft' feature, the forum is by far the most user-unfriendly
> forum platform ever (by appearance). But I may be totally wrong,
> because users here are
Don't think of it as a forum.
Think of it as just a bunch of public email chains.
Because that is what it is under the hood.
Want to learn something from you guys.
forum.dlang.org is by far the biggest gathering point for Dlang
users. So, even though I wanted to get away with using
stackoverflow.com, I have to come back here. However, to me it
easier for me, I would like to know how you guys get comfortable
with
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