On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 20:34:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/15/2013 1:11 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 19:54:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Given how enormously popular Twitter is for breaking news and
announcements, I
think you're wrong about that.
I have just check web pages for several popular programming
languages and have
found zero using twitter instead of a news feed. Popular?
Applying general
statistics (internet users) to an extremely narrow specialized
group of people
(programming language consumers) is not going to work.
Watch the news - many times the news reporters will remark that
they not only get their breaking news from twitter, they'll
show the tweets as part of the broadcast.
Twitter for news is mainstream.
It is a service that belongs to specific corporation and is
completely
controlled by one providing no means for federation and/or
self-hosting. Random
move from Twitter and D web site can loose its only news feed.
Outsourcing
primary infrastructure does not smell good.
If twitter ceases to be useful, we'll move to something else.
Note that we also rely on github and Amazon S3. We do self-host
this n.g., which has been nice in keeping it fairly free of
spam & trolls.
Which mostly highlights how awesome some members of D
community are :) But why
not lower entry barrier?
Because somebody has to step up and do the work for that. Note
that there is no paid IT infrastructure staff. Change is driven
by somebody self-appointing themselves champion and driving
their agenda forward.
By the way, I have already asked a question in that
regard - if someone comes up with a more dynamic web site
implementation which
is still based on D stack, will it be accepted?
If it is obviously awesome, sure. If it isn't, or if it is only
marginally better, or same only different, then no.
FYI, Twitter is blocked here in China. Web pages which need to
parse Twitter or other blocked services related stuff become
unresponsive for a long time before showing other stuff normally.
