On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:16:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> What about supporting only a few features like hyperlinks and code blocks? These should be unambiguous and not conflict with anything.
>
> Yes, we could do that, with the downside of implementing our own Markdown variant with its own instruction manual. But we already use footnotes for hyperlinks by convention, and code already looks fine, so what's the gain? Syntax highlighting?

Nice hyperlinks and syntax highlighting.

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:19:06 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> 5. You can't edit posts once sent. This means that if you accidentally
>> messed up the formatting (e.g. you pasted code without padding it with
>> whitespace or surrounding it in ```...``` blocks), you can't go back and
>> edit it now.
>
> This. I mess up markdown all the time. If I can't edit, I'd be screwed :)

Conventional hyperlinks are not going anywhere :)

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:45:58 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> It may be that we have lost potential participants because they
>> clicked away from the page within seconds of realising there was no
>> oauth (I definitely would).
>
> It's doable but just seems a little overkill to me. Every time I looked into implementing OAuth I was swamped by how overly complicated it was (or maybe I just never found a succint-enough description).

AFAIK, Nick wanted to write OAuth support library in D.

On 6/5/15 2:16 AM, sigod wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:52:07 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:48:20 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> How feasible is it to add code formatting for the web interface?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. Do you mean syntax highlighting for D code?
>>
>> If you mean the rewrapping issues with forum.dlang.org, those should
>> be fixed now. Code (and other text with hard line breaks) should be
>> sent and displayed as-is.
>
> How about markdown support? It can have completely client-side
> implementation.

That'd be really interesting - text would look nice in the text clients (email, NNTP), and beautiful online. That way the online forum becomes more attractive. -- Andrei

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 14:16:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Yes, we could do that, with the downside of implementing our own Markdown variant with its own instruction manual.

Every site in the internet supports its own way to markup, some accept html, some - bbcode, some - markdown, so manual on what's supported will be handy.

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>
> Many major and minor improvements.
>
> Some major ones:
>
> - dlang.org theme, fully responsive and mobile-friendly
> - keyboard navigation in all views
> - automatically saved post drafts
> - get notified of new posts and replies with subscriptions
> - full text search
> - by persistent request, a new view mode (vertical-split)
> - post to mailing lists
> - even faster, believe it or not.
>
> This update is the sum of 256 commits over 34 days of development.

Looks really nice, I particularly like the improved speed, reply notifications (though haven't tried it yet) and subscriptions. Keyboard navigation is interesting, but I've always found it a bit clunky (especially because combined with scrolling, it often doesn't update the current post so pressing k/j goes somewhere else on the screen, but I guess space makes more sense in that situation). A shortcut for navigating to the next page would not be amiss however.

One thing that I've always found annoying is how difficult it is to open up multiple threads in a new tab in Basic mode. Any post that you haven't read you have to move your mouse to the far left to click it, any post you have read you have to move your mouse to the far right to go to the next unread post. I usually just open up most updated threads in a new tab, so you're constantly going back and forth from far left to far right. It would be nice if there was a way to go to the first post on an unread thread or the first unread post on a read thread without having to move across the page.

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>
> Many major and minor improvements.

Man, I think we found the ultimate bikeshed topic for D, with 113 replies in one day. :)

There is a bug in the currently deployed DFeed forum with Chrome on Android tablets, where it's necessary to click on an external link twice before it will load, which seems to be fixed in this beta.  Hopefully, the fix is intentional and it won't recur.

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 16:10:47 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> One thing that I've always found annoying is how difficult it is to open up multiple threads in a new tab in Basic mode. Any post that you haven't read you have to move your mouse to the far left to click it, any post you have read you have to move your mouse to the far right to go to the next unread post. I usually just open up most updated threads in a new tab, so you're constantly going back and forth from far left to far right. It would be nice if there was a way to go to the first post on an unread thread or the first unread post on a read thread without having to move across the page.

The reply count number is now a "secret" link to the thread.

On 6/5/2015 10:31 PM, sigod wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 12:57:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> 1. People receiving messages through NNTP/mailing lists will not see
>> the formatted Markdown.
>
> That isn't a problem at all.
>

For you, perhaps. I use a news reader to access theses groups most of the time and have no desire to parse Markdown while reading the posts. So it's a problem for me. I'm confident I'm not the only one.

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>
> Many major and minor improvements.
>
> Some major ones:
>
> - dlang.org theme, fully responsive and mobile-friendly
> - keyboard navigation in all views
> - automatically saved post drafts
> - get notified of new posts and replies with subscriptions
> - full text search
> - by persistent request, a new view mode (vertical-split)
> - post to mailing lists
> - even faster, believe it or not.
>
> This update is the sum of 256 commits over 34 days of development.

Much nicer reading & posting from mobile browser. Thanks! :-)

On 2015-06-05 03:37, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> Except for the bold part, believe it or not, it's exactly the same font
> as we use on dlang.org, size and all (Verdana 14px). And as for the bold
> part, it doesn't look so bad on Windows, so what does that say about the
> famed OS X font rendering? :D

I think it looks good (both in Firefox and Safari), the same as on form.dlang.org, just bigger.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-06-05 03:45, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> It's doable but just seems a little overkill to me. Every time I looked
> into implementing OAuth I was swamped by how overly complicated it was
> (or maybe I just never found a succint-enough description).

What about hooking up Github accounts or something similar?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg