Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-06 Thread Dejan Lekic
Sandeep Datta wrote: Hi Guys, I just wanted to say I am pretty impressed with the revamped D forums. TBH I tried to join in on the conversion many times before the change but the ancient NNTP based approach was just not palatable enough. But needless to say we have come a long way from

Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-05 Thread Gour
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:04:33 -0800 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: But that's just me... most people don't agree with that. :-) Do they agree with you or not, the fact is that forum software cannot approach functionality of email/nntp. Sincerely, Gour -- There are principles to

A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-04 Thread Sandeep Datta
Hi Guys, I just wanted to say I am pretty impressed with the revamped D forums. TBH I tried to join in on the conversion many times before the change but the ancient NNTP based approach was just not palatable enough. But needless to say we have come a long way from that. Having said that I

Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-04 Thread so
Hello! On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 08:21:13 UTC, Sandeep Datta wrote: Also the upvote and downvote buttons can come in handy sometimes too (for example if you did not like this post you could downvote it to oblivion). All sounds fine except this, i hate this kind of stuff. They open doors

Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-04 Thread James Miller
On 4 March 2012 22:20, so s...@so.so wrote: Hello! On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 08:21:13 UTC, Sandeep Datta wrote: Also the upvote and downvote buttons can come in handy sometimes too (for example if you did not like this post you could downvote it to oblivion). All sounds fine except

Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-04 Thread Mars
On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 09:45:44 UTC, James Miller wrote: On 4 March 2012 22:20, so s...@so.so wrote: Hello! On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 08:21:13 UTC, Sandeep Datta wrote: Also the upvote and downvote buttons can come in handy sometimes too (for example if you did not like this post you

Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Mars -@-.- wrote in message news:ywpzampglhwcpimze...@forum.dlang.org... For people who never used newsgroups etc, it feels extremely awkward at first. And if you're used to normal, modern board softwares, this is like a small down grade. You get used to it of course, but I'm sure this drove

Re: A better way to manage discussions?

2012-03-04 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 11:07:43AM +0100, Mars wrote: [[...] Or maybe we just need a real forum... I was actually thinking about posting something similar several times already, especially before this new official front end. For people who never used newsgroups etc, it feels extremely awkward