Stanley Steel wrote:
I am looking for a project to complete to help enhance my nonexistent portfolio. So, I was hoping to do something along the lines of web development and design as that is where my interest and experience lies. Hence, the suggestion to do something other than a newsgroup topic.
I've been interested in a long time in writing a D cgi application that runs on the server and enables a reddit-like view of the n.g. postings, as well as the usual n.g. nntp interface.
The current archiving stuff http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/index.html is a step in that direction, but it is not interactive and doesn't allow posting.
People would have two possible ways to interact with the n.g. - through the standard NNTP interface using a normal newsreader, or the reddit-style interactive web view. The latter would also allow logged in users to vote + or -, have avatars, etc.