Wait, is this a reply today to a post made in November 2012?
-- Andrei
Yes, here is what happens:
1. person does a search, finds 2+ year old thread that he likes
to respond to.
2. Entire thread gets pushed to the "most recent" posts on
forum/newsgroup
3. Others now see the thread (possibly for the second time),
and don't realize it's old, and read it thinking it's about
today.
A nice thing might be to make color of posts on forum.dlang.org
based on recentness, 2+ month old be one color, 1+ year be
another.
This wouldn't help with newsgroup users, but it probably would
help with forum users.
-Steve
Perhaps I should have made clearer in my post, but do you think
it is necessarily inappropriate to extend a conversation that
petered out rather than making a new post. Many observers (Neil
Postman - 'amusing ourselves to death') have pointed to the
superficiality and loss of coherence arising from the way in
which we use technology.
The question of D's edge and prospects isn't one that changes
more than incrementally over a couple of years, as I understand
it. And I thought more than a few times before deciding to post
as to whether this would add value to the world, but it's an
important question and my particular part of finance is not a
tiny use domain.
Putting oneself in the position of a prospective new user (as I
have to do before suggesting my peers give D a try), one comes
away from reading Slashdot discussions with the idea that there
are a lot of complaints about D - and then one reads the forums
and has a similar perspective. Since people are starved of
attention and time, some will give up right then. So I wanted to
do my small part to contextualize this.
Laeeth.
