On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 15:33:13 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:

Below your avatar it says "Posted in reply to Ali" with Ali being a clickable link to the post. The link suggests it would go to a user profile though, so it's easy to miss.

On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 16:12:39 UTC, Dennis wrote:

Oh i never noticed it!! Thanks!

On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 15:24:33 UTC, Ali wrote:

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

On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 20:03:37 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

This is what the "Announce" forum is for. When you create a project using D, or release a new version of your project, you can post in the Announce forum to let the rest of the community know about it.

Maybe we need to do a better job of encouraging members of the community to post in the Announce forum?

On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 22:46:47 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:

As I said, my view on announce is that it feels much more like official D staff stuff rather than community projects. Specially if you look at the front pages, most one would see are those announcements.

And, to be honest, I don't know how much people feels worthy of showing their humble little project next to D staff things

On Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 03:12:15 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

The Announce forum has been used for community announcements since it was opened in 2005, 10 years before Andrei created the D Language Foundations. Announcements related to D, including community projects, is absolutely what it’s for.