I'm curious if there are any upgrades coming in the near future.

As a D-Newbie, I find myself combing these forums regularly to try and get up to speed on what's going on, but there are several things making it difficult.

-I have a valid email address in the box up there^, but I don't receive notifications when people respond to my posts here.

-The way quotes are displayed is tough on the eyes. Rather than having the quotes grayed out and crowded by angle brackets, I would prefer something like stackoverflow where the text was black, but on a gray background, possibly with black outlines for nested quotes.

-Looking at code here is brutal. Lines wrap way too short, no syntax highlighting. https://highlightjs.org/ supports syntax highlighting for the D language and is very easy to implement. And a scrollable area for code would be nice. I suppose code sections could be signalled by leading a line with 4 spaces like SO, or with [code] tags.

-editing and delete posts after posting would be nice, but I assume this would be quite a bit more difficult than the above suggestions.

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 22:29:42 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> I'm curious if there are any upgrades coming in the near future.

Although this is not directly an answer to your question, I just want to make sure you are aware of it:

The forum is a front-end to a newsgroup. A news reader or email client might have the features you want (including custom styling to your preferences).

> The forum is a front-end to a newsgroup. A news reader or email client might have the features you want (including custom styling to your preferences).

I thought that this was the case, but I prefer using a web interface.

I appreciate having the ability to visit these forums on any platform, without the need to install, configure, or maintain any kind of news group client.

Even thought this site is a front-end for a news group, the enhancements I am suggesting should still be relatively easy.

I'm curious now though... are there any statistics available for who actually uses this site as opposed to an external client?

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 22:29:42 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> ...
> -The way quotes are displayed is tough on the eyes. Rather than having the quotes grayed out and crowded by angle brackets, I would prefer something like stackoverflow where the text was black, but on a gray background, possibly with black outlines for nested quotes.

Overall I find the site kind of tough on my eyes, I use a stylish theme to help.

https://userstyles.org/styles/65395/dlang-org-dark-theme

> Overall I find the site kind of tough on my eyes, I use a stylish theme to help.
>
> https://userstyles.org/styles/65395/dlang-org-dark-theme

I am getting more and more weary of downloading software these days unless it's very well known. I almost got infected by malware yesterday by SourceForge of all places..

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 23:14:14 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> Overall I find the site kind of tough on my eyes, I use a stylish theme to help.
>>
>> https://userstyles.org/styles/65395/dlang-org-dark-theme
>
> I am getting more and more weary of downloading software these days unless it's very well known. I almost got infected by malware yesterday by SourceForge of all places..

Userstyles is a site for Stylish themes, it's an open source extension for most browsers released under GPLv3.

> Userstyles is a site for Stylish themes, it's an open source extension for most browsers released under GPLv3.

So is Filezilla...but would you care to download a copy? ;)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/files/FileZilla_Client/3.10.0/

On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 23:18:25 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> Userstyles is a site for Stylish themes, it's an open source extension for most browsers released under GPLv3.
>
> So is Filezilla...but would you care to download a copy? ;)
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/files/FileZilla_Client/3.10.0/

Sure!
pacman -S filezilla

Guess it's not so great when your OS doesn't have a package manager that uses signed packages though.
: )

> Guess it's not so great when your OS doesn't have a package manager that uses signed packages though.
> : )

Welll.... Some people seem to love the terminal, but in all honesty, if it wasnt' for Mono-D, I would not have taken the time to learn D.

> Welll.... Some people seem to love the terminal, but in all honesty, if it wasnt' for Mono-D, I would not have taken the time to learn D.

Not to say that I'm not glad I did learn D, but I don't imagine anyone wanting to learn D would just take it on full throttle without first experimenting with it in their spare(most likely limited) time.

As far as the above suggestions go, I would ask if I could contribute the changes myself, but where it would take me hours, or possibly days to get involved with the source for the D forum, there is probably someone out there who's got it opened on their other monitor right now =)