When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not relating to D, defunct, very low activity.

This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.

Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click here"?

On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>
> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>
> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click
> here"?

We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.

On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>
>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>
>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click
>> here"?
>
> We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
> I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.

why not just edit the forum source ?

On 1/25/15 2:41 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>
> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>
> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click
> here"?

Related: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14045

Andrei

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 00:29:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/25/15 2:41 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>
>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>
>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click
>> here"?
>
> Related: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14045
>
> Andrei

Should the newsgroups themselves be renamed?  I don't know nntp, or what the implications of that are - presumably that breaks everyone's reader and so not worth the trouble since only experienced people will read the groups that way, and so just the web alias changes, which is I think what you suggested.

On 26/01/2015 12:42 p.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>>
>>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>>
>>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click
>>> here"?
>>
>> We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
>> I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.
>
> why not just edit the forum source ?

Its not a forum. Its a news group web interface. Which just so happens to be DFeed.

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 01:55:32 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 26/01/2015 12:42 p.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>> On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>>>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>>>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>>>
>>>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>>>
>>>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>>>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums?  click
>>>> here"?
>>>
>>> We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
>>> I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.
>>
>> why not just edit the forum source ?
>
> Its not a forum. Its a news group web interface. Which just so happens to be DFeed.

I regret the imprecision with which I spoke, but it does not change what seems to be the best way to fix it.  Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without - very confusing to see the forums change names (if I understood correctly).  Sounds like that is what Herr Alexandrescu had in mind too with the related pull.

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

> Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is no sense to make anything else working right without js.

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:13:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>
>> Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
> dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is no sense to make
> anything else working right without js.

dlang.org should work just fine without JS. Same goes for the forums, but of course you won't be able to use the JS-powered horizontal-split view mode.

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:36:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:13:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>
>>> Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
>> dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is no sense to make
>> anything else working right without js.
>
> dlang.org should work just fine without JS. Same goes for the forums, but of course you won't be able to use the JS-powered horizontal-split view mode.

Understood - I meant in relation to this: "We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.  I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though."