On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:46:05 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 3/13/2014 11:42 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
That may be one reason to use a pre-existing forum software.
It still requires constant attention.
We are not moving away from Vladimir's forum software. It is very fast,
it integrates seamlessly with netnews while providing common forum
behaviors, etc. And, it provides a premium example of kick-ass software
written in D.
I don't disagree, my point was merely if you want voting, and you don't
want to reinvent the anti-gaming mechanisms, using another software would
be a plausible option.
I personally don't think "gaming" the vote makes much sense. In the D
forums, posts quickly fade from memory. If you want to "game" the votes, I
don't see what that buys you when nobody remembers that post next week
(sometimes even tomorrow!)
I've never used any forum software that is better (including Reddit).
Reddit blows because there's no indication of which comments have been
read and which have not, making it very tedious to monitor one thread
over a period of time.
Reddit sucks. I personally like disqus for real-time discussion. It has a
system of flagging new posts that have appeared while you were sitting
there.
I would love to see d forums have more live-update features. It would make
it more like a Newsgroup, where you don't have to refresh to see new
things, posts just show up when they are posted.
-Steve
