On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 01:43:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/21/2018 2:41 PM, tide wrote:
What about if you accidentially press a button that posts the
comment?
That's really up to your NNTP client's design, which we didn't
implement. There are lots of NNTP clients to choose from.
Why can't syntax formatting be implemented, does anyone
disagree that is a useless feature?
It's a useless feature.
Formatting is needed for longer form text, which is not really
appropriate for the forum. Forum posts should be short and to
the point - posting an article or manifesto should be posted
separately, with a link to it in the forum.
Also, there is no need to post pictures, emoji, banners, or
other cruft one sees in other forums. Especially pictures, as
those eat up server space and bandwith at a terrifying rate.
Nearly 20 years of the D forum consumes 2,800,000 4K blocks, or
somewhat over a gigabyte. Not bad.
Forum posts should be informative and contain meaningful text
that will be understandable for readers. And if required, it
should contain videos / images / screenshots / quotes / links,
etc. And should be written so that it is convenient to read -
with formatting, highlighting, indentation...
It is very strange to hear from programmer that "syntax
formatting" is useless feature.
Possibility to vote for message, append "thank you" and mark some
message as an answer it also increases readability.
Any self-respecting website related to programming or developing
something, has in its composition a place where people can
comfortably and freely discuss pressing issues. Not some weird
news group.
