On 1/31/2011 5:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Adam Ruppe wrote:
In the other newsgroup, I've been talking about a little
web news program I've been writing as a spinoff of the
potential new homepage idea.
That is great news. I've been wanting to do one for years! I haven't
looked much at yours yet, but here's my ideas anyway :-)
1. Can use web interface or nntp interface
2. web interface looks sort of like reddit, i.e. all posts on a thread
3. users can post anonymously
4. web interfaces supports logins - logged in users can vote up or down
on posts
5. web interface can mark posts as read or unread - fixing my beef with
reddit that there's no reasonable way to scan a thread for new posts
6. an easy way for moderators to delete spam
7. runs on 64 bit FreeBSD (what the Digital Mars server runs on), yes, I
know that means I have to get 64 bit dmd on FreeBSD working!
I can contribute the code that generates the D archive pages from the
news postings.
I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open
source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? It seems that these
changes would require minimal changes to the code base, except for nntp
access. But I guess I don't understand the benefits of it over a
web-based solution.
