The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at:

http://dlang.org/blog/

The inaugural post is a short list of some of the work Andrei is doing with the D Foundation. That's one of the things you can expect to see -- updates on what's going on behind the scenes, sometimes with more detail than what you see in this first post. You will also see posts regarding projects in the D community at large (and I am going to scour the web for projects from people who don't post here -- I know they're out there) and guest posts from certain people I intend to prod into action. I hope it becomes a source of useful information for the community and beyond.

It may take a short bit for me to get my blog legs back. It's been a long time since I've done this on a regular basis. Once I find my rhythm, I hope to establish a regular posting pattern.

The theme is not set in stone, so if you have any suggestions fire away.

On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The theme is not set in stone, so if you have any suggestions fire away.

The font is way too big!

On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at:
>
> http://dlang.org/blog/

IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything.

On 03 Jun 2016 22:35, "Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>
>> The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it
is now live at:
>>
>> http://dlang.org/blog/
>
>
> IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking
for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything.

Would be nice if the comment section was an interface to a specific news group here. Keeping things in one place.

On 6/3/16 4:50 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> On 03 Jun 2016 22:35, "Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce"
> <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
> <mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>
>>> The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer,
> it is now live at:
>>>
>>> http://dlang.org/blog/
>>
>>
>> IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just
> asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of
> moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions
> happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing
> anything.
>
> Would be nice if the comment section was an interface to a specific news
> group here. Keeping things in one place.
>

Yes. That would be cool if posting a blog post could be linked to the announcement, and then the comment section was a mini-dfeed instance that posted the result to the actual forum.

-Steve

On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:34:22 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> The theme is not set in stone, so if you have any suggestions fire away.
>
> The font is way too big!

Jack touched up the theme a bit. Looks better now.

On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 20:34:53 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
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> IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything.

The blog will potentially attract people who do not frequent the forums. From that perspective, I think we should give comments a try. I do anticipate getting a good deal of spam, but in my experience, Akismet is pretty effective.

At the moment, I've got it configured to require moderation for anyone's first comment, so even if there is a lot of spam it won't be visible. If comment moderation becomes too much for me to handle, I'll look at other options.

On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 21:15:46 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 6/3/16 4:50 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

>>
>> Would be nice if the comment section was an interface to a specific news
>> group here. Keeping things in one place.
>>
>
> Yes. That would be cool if posting a blog post could be linked to the announcement, and then the comment section was a mini-dfeed instance that posted the result to the actual forum.
>


If anyone wants to develop a Wordpress plugin for it, I'll give it a try. PHP ain't my thing. I'd hate to waste my Akismet subscription, though :)

On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 01:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The blog will potentially attract people who do not frequent the forums. From that perspective, I think we should give comments a try.

I agree, part of the fun of a blog is the comments!

Pretty dazz! Thanks, Mike!