On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 02:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote:
>> As with many things it depends on what you want to achieve.
>> Answering on SO is as much about establishing awareness as it is
>> about answering the question. For a newcomer to D StackOverflow
>> may be their first port of call, if questions go unanswered, or
>> are answered after long delays, then the likelihood of the person
>> persisting with D is diminished.
>
> I answer questions on SO all the time, but I rarely ask anything there, and I
> never ask anything D-related there. Of course, if my question is D-related,
> I'm much more likely to _have_ to ask my question here to get a good answer
> anyway just based on how many people would even know the answer, simply
> because I know enough that anything I asked would be much more likely to be
> esoteric and/or require in-depth knowledge. The experts are all here, and only
> a small portion of them are on SO.
>
> In any case, I'd say that in general, asking your question on SO gives it more
> visibility to those outside of the core D community, but you're more likely to
> get a good answer here than there, because there are more people here, and
> this is where the experts are.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

First off, thank you so much for answering questions on SO. Answers there come up higher in Google search results than questions here, and several of your answers have been very helpful to me. There are others that answer, who I'm also grateful for, but your name always sticks out to me when I see an answer there.

It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum search, but this isn't something a newcomer will know to do, especially since many other languages put more emphasis on SO.

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
[..]
> It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum search, but this isn't something a newcomer will know to do, especially since many other languages put more emphasis on SO.

Speaking of searching on this forum: in Chrome, the search box in top right corner of this page has a peculiar feature of being mostly a clickable link item to forum.dlang.org. Only a small fragment (about 25%) shows a text cursor.

Sorry for posting this issue here, but I didn't find a suitable category in forum index. Maybe one could be created - "Forum use issues"?

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
> [..]
>> It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum search, but this isn't something a newcomer will know to do, especially since many other languages put more emphasis on SO.
>
> Speaking of searching on this forum: in Chrome, the search box in top right corner of this page has a peculiar feature of being mostly a clickable link item to forum.dlang.org. Only a small fragment (about 25%) shows a text cursor.
>
> Sorry for posting this issue here, but I didn't find a suitable category in forum index. Maybe one could be created - "Forum use issues"?

This is dependant on the size of your window. If your window is so narrow that the title is overlapping the search box then the title takes precedence, which is not desirable. You could create an issue here to report it: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 11:00:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
>> [..]
>>> It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum search, but this isn't something a newcomer will know to do, especially since many other languages put more emphasis on SO.
>>
>> Speaking of searching on this forum: in Chrome, the search box in top right corner of this page has a peculiar feature of being mostly a clickable link item to forum.dlang.org. Only a small fragment (about 25%) shows a text cursor.
>>
>> Sorry for posting this issue here, but I didn't find a suitable category in forum index. Maybe one could be created - "Forum use issues"?
>
> This is dependant on the size of your window. If your window is so narrow that the title is overlapping the search box then the title takes precedence, which is not desirable. You could create an issue here to report it: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

Thanks, that's exactly what is happening, except I wouldn't call my window narrow - it is 1200 pixels wide, but 1600 pixels high. I will report this issue.

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 20:12:49 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 11:00:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
>>> [..]
>>>> It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum search, but this isn't something a newcomer will know to do, especially since many other languages put more emphasis on SO.
>>>
>>> Speaking of searching on this forum: in Chrome, the search box in top right corner of this page has a peculiar feature of being mostly a clickable link item to forum.dlang.org. Only a small fragment (about 25%) shows a text cursor.
>>>
>>> Sorry for posting this issue here, but I didn't find a suitable category in forum index. Maybe one could be created - "Forum use issues"?
>>
>> This is dependant on the size of your window. If your window is so narrow that the title is overlapping the search box then the title takes precedence, which is not desirable. You could create an issue here to report it: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
>
> Thanks, that's exactly what is happening, except I wouldn't call my window narrow - it is 1200 pixels wide, but 1600 pixels high. I will report this issue.

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/pull/15

On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 22:00:10 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/pull/15

Thank you for fixing it.