Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so hard to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've set it fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far better and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who don't know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe everyone who uses internet has seen it in action...

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bobef schrieb am Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:48:01 +0000 (UTC):
> Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so hard to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've set it fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far better and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who don't know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe everyone who uses internet has seen it in action...

The forum interface is indeed be a little bit cumbersome.

I recomend you try your favourite news reader and connect to news.digitalmars.com. Wouldn't want to miss offline reading and searching.

Thomas

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bobef wrote:

> Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so hard
> to find anything here or follow a conversation... 

This is not a web forum, but a newsgroup. It's a lot easier to read with a real newsreader such as Mozilla Thunderbird, than with a web browser ?

But a web forum is of course also a useful thing.
Dsource has one: http://www.dsource.org/forums/

But this "forum" is more like what e.g. webmail is to regular email...
(I think the web access is more for archiving/linking than actual usage)

--anders

I use my favourite news reader but the link in the left frame says "Forum" not something else... And I still prefer forum than newsreader... I find it easier to follow conversation when every article is following the one it's replyign to rather than reading separete news... This is my opinion of course...

I think a forum would be a good idea - a newsgroup is fine, but with a forum it should be a little easier to manage traffic - have named moderators for different areas who could look after things (Not that there seems to be much need, but as interest in D grows, there probably will be). Also it makes it easier to sort out posts in the wrong place and other such problems. (mods and admins can just move them to the right place).

I've done some forum admin and it's pretty easy - the only problem is finding the webspace/bandwidth with php and mySQL (if needed) support.

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:48:01 +0000 (UTC), bobef <bobef_member@pathlink.com> wrote:

> Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so hard
> to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've set it
> fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far better
> and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to
> administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who don't
> know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe everyone
> who uses internet has seen it in action...
>
>



-- 
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

I don't know where is digitalmars located (assume usa, hopefuly not on mars ;) but in my country (bulgaria), which is just a bit after mars in it's development every web hosting service provide mysql and php and it is cheap... In fact it would be very hard to find a provider without these services...

In article <opsn1ia1pi08qma6@mjolnir.spamnet.local>, Alex Stevenson says...
>
>I think a forum would be a good idea - a newsgroup is fine, but with a forum it should be a little easier to manage traffic - have named moderators for different areas who could look after things (Not that there seems to be much need, but as interest in D grows, there probably will be). Also it makes it easier to sort out posts in the wrong place and other such problems. (mods and admins can just move them to the right place).
>
>I've done some forum admin and it's pretty easy - the only problem is finding the webspace/bandwidth with php and mySQL (if needed) support.
>
>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:48:01 +0000 (UTC), bobef <bobef_member@pathlink.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is
>> so hard
>> to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've
>> set it
>> fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far
>> better
>> and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to
>> administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who
>> don't
>> know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe
>> everyone
>> who uses internet has seen it in action...
>>
>>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

I don't know about Outlook or any others, but in Mozilla Thunderbird I just use the "View->Sort by->Threaded" option from the menu bar, and voila, messages are grouped in a tree, just like in a branching web forum.

-- Chris Sauls

bobef wrote:
> I use my favourite news reader but the link in the left frame says "Forum" not
> something else... And I still prefer forum than newsreader... I find it easier
> to follow conversation when every article is following the one it's replyign to
> rather than reading separete news... This is my opinion of course...
> 
> 

"bobef" <bobef_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d1p0lh$2ct4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so
> hard
> to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've
> set it
> fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far
> better
> and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to
> administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who
> don't
> know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe
> everyone
> who uses internet has seen it in action...

I'm all for it.  Using this newsgroup makes me feel like I'm back in the stone age of the internet.  Hell, I can't even post a decent indented piece of code on here, not to mention all *other* formatting is lost.  I could use HTML, but apparently there are people here who only view messages in plaintext, and that wouldn't work for them.

I suppose forums would require much more bandwidth, though.

In article <d1q0nd$h2c$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
>
>"bobef" <bobef_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d1p0lh$2ct4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so
>> hard
>> to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've
>> set it
>> fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far
>> better
>> and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to
>> administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who
>> don't
>> know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe
>> everyone
>> who uses internet has seen it in action...
>
>I'm all for it.  Using this newsgroup makes me feel like I'm back in the stone age of the internet.  Hell, I can't even post a decent indented piece of code on here, not to mention all *other* formatting is lost.  I could use HTML, but apparently there are people here who only view messages in plaintext, and that wouldn't work for them.
>
>I suppose forums would require much more bandwidth, though.

Technically it *is* a real forum, just not one of the PHPBB variety.  The web interface is for those of us who don't have NNTP (usenet) readers handy or simply cannot use such things where they are (*coughatworkcough*).

http://www.digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html

Using a newsreader makes things far easier to manage, search and manipulate than any web app out there.  Most readers will allow you to display threads, track read/unread status of mesages, archive old posts, and manage your identity (signature and whatnot).

Also, there is a wealth of information (and entertainment!) out there on the public usenet; so your use of such software will yield additional benefits.

- EricAnderton at yahoo

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "bobef" <bobef_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d1p0lh$2ct4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>Maybe this one is for Walter... Why we are using this ugly forum? It is so hard
>>to find anything here or follow a conversation... PHPBB is free and I've set it
>>fully working just by reading quick installation guide. It's looks far better
>>and is easy to find anythig. It has cool search and is VERY easy to
>>administrate. Also it is very customizable even for people like me who don't
>>know php and all colourful crap could be easily removed.... I believe everyone
>>who uses internet has seen it in action...
> 
> 
> I'm all for it.  Using this newsgroup makes me feel like I'm back in the stone age of the internet.  Hell, I can't even post a decent indented piece of code on here, not to mention all *other* formatting is lost.  I could use HTML, but apparently there are people here who only view messages in plaintext, and that wouldn't work for them.
> 
> I suppose forums would require much more bandwidth, though. 
> 
> 

Usenet using a real newsreader (I'm using Thunderbird) is the only *real* forum out there ;) It's umpteen times faster than using those webforums.

Lars Ivar Igesund