On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 15:24:33 UTC, Ali wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 00:42:01 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
> I believe that, specially in 2022, it is astonishing to think that this forum still does not support images.
Many new comers do wonder about this forum software
and many have asked to move to better options like discourse
To save you time, yes this forum is antiquated
but the community, just doesn't seem to have an appetite to change it
D is a small community, so if you think about it
this forum, might actually be good enough
Take D and the D community for what it is, dont dream for them
And because it is a small community, they dont have bandwidth for things like
changing the website, the forum, adding a chat room, marketing, moving to github etc ...
Things you can actually change are the Language Compiler, the libraries and fixing bugs
So, basically what I asked was a "Projects" section which would create more space to D people advertise D projects and post images showing their projects. The Discord community already has something like that, why don't do it with the forums where eventually any D user will come? D is a small community but it is far over from being good enough. I'm here because I like what D proposes, but "Good Enough" feels really as an overstatement about D's current state.
In my time programming in D, I have seen a plenty of people saying just how old the forums feel, like, needing a modern redesign on it. Not to mention how abandoned it feels over all
Another thing, that statement even made this forum feels like its made from language compiler developers to language compiler developer. Like, there is an unaccountable people which has already contributed to the language as a language, but what D is missing right now is D software.
In the end of the day, if you have users, you'll know more bugs there is in the language if there isn't just compiler developers using it.
If you're living on a hut and feels like it is good enough, you'll never have a mansion. The community which had appetite for a change already moved out :). As Teoh mentioned, if someone is bothered with images and projects on forum, they can just "Unsubscribe" for that section and keep following it from the mailing list. That's what inclusion is. Not having a choice is not inclusion