"Walter Bright" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:el9uc7$19kv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

Wow, much better!

Walter Bright wrote:

> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

Very nice indeed :) Thumbs up!

-- 

Noyce!

"Walter Bright" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:el9uc7$19kv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

Matthew wrote:
> Noyce!

Holy crap, he lives!

"Brad Anderson" <brad@dsource.org> wrote in message news:ela75t$1jen$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Matthew wrote:
> > Noyce!
>
> Holy crap, he lives!

Sure enough. :-)

Actually, I've been very busy this year, with work and stuff, so I assume your comment is with regards to D.

FYI: the "stuff" has largely been finishing off book #2 (Extended STL,
volume 1), releasing Pantheios ("the ultimate C++ logging library"), getting
STLSoft to a point where I can finally do a "proper" release,  and planning
book #3 (Breaking Up The Monolith).

Wrt D, Sean and I have an arrangement whereby he is going to notify me when D's at a point of maturity that'll support a really sharp template library, at which point I'll try and find the time to dive back in! (Of course, he may have forgotten and better equipped people than me may have already done a/some great template lib(s), so the issue may be moot. If not, I'll be having a go at that next year, as part of the research/writing of Extended STL, volume 2! <g>)

The book on D's obviously not got anywhere yet, but 2007 may prove interesting in that regard ...

Happy Christmas to all D folks!

Cheers

Matthew

P.S. If anyone who's across C++ and D cares to take a look at Pantheios (http://pantheios.org/) and get back to me about maybe working on Pantheios.D, I'd be very happy to hear from you. Early on in its development I worked a bit with Walter to make sure it is binary compatible with D to ensure that when Pantheios.D happens, it'd be nice and smooth.

-- 
Matthew Wilson

Author: "Extended STL", Addison-Wesley, 2006
    http://www.extendedstl.com
Author: "Imperfect C++", Addison-Wesley, 2004
    http://www.imperfectcplusplus.com
Director, Synesis Software
    www.synesis.com.au
STLSoft moderator
    http://www.stlsoft.org
    news://news.digitalmars.com/c++.stlsoft

"I can't sleep nights till I found out who hurled what ball through what apparatus" -- Dr Niles Crane

Walter Bright wrote:
> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php


This looks much better!

I think having a good web interface to the D NGs is very important for attracting new users, who may not be ready to commit to installing a newsreader just to read D newsgroups.  These folks are more likely to just lose interest than fight with a bad web interface, meaning they'll give up before they have a chance to catch "D Fever".

So I think this is great news.

--bb

Walter Bright wrote:
> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

It seems to be having some trouble with linking to the right pages.  For
example, on

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=1675

the bottom link of "Recent messages in this thread" goes to completely
the wrong place.

Stewart.

Walter Bright schrieb:
> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

It look way more better than the old one.
Take a look at RForum too:
http://rforum.andreas-s.net/rforum
Its written with Ruby on Rails and can act as gateway to newsgroups.

Here's an heavy used forum: http://www.ruby-forum.com/