With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is dynamic about D?

So it hit me like a hammer:

* Forum discussions (this!)

* github traffic

* bugzilla traffic

* more recently, Adam's weekly newsletter.

We already have twitter which is nice. Adding some of the above to the homepage would be awesome. What do you all think?


Andrei

On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:34:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is dynamic about D?

Are you becoming a web-developer? :)

> We already have twitter which is nice. Adding some of the above to the homepage would be awesome. What do you all think?

Yes, it could be nice, but you do you have in mind? Put for example the last 10 posts of the forum on the main page?

Matheus.

On 1/18/15 6:47 PM, MattCoder wrote:
> On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:34:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat
>> down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is
>> dynamic about D?
>
> Are you becoming a web-developer? :)
>
>> We already have twitter which is nice. Adding some of the above to the
>> homepage would be awesome. What do you all think?
>
> Yes, it could be nice, but you do you have in mind? Put for example the
> last 10 posts of the forum on the main page?

Something like that. Or maybe the last 10 topics because it's easy the last 10 posts are on the same (inane) topic. Brainstorming mode!! -- Andrei

On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:34:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is dynamic about D?
>
> So it hit me like a hammer:
>
> * Forum discussions (this!)
>
> * github traffic
>
> * bugzilla traffic
>
> * more recently, Adam's weekly newsletter.
>
> We already have twitter which is nice. Adding some of the above to the homepage would be awesome. What do you all think?
>
>
> Andrei

Absolutely. Don't let anything note worthy go unmissed. Let D developers know that D is constantly changing things around the world and not just the forums.

Add content from other websites, articles, etc.

Just let people know that D isn't dead. And that the front of the page proves it.

On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:34:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is dynamic about D?
>
> So it hit me like a hammer:
>
> * Forum discussions (this!)
>
> * github traffic
>
> * bugzilla traffic
>
> * more recently, Adam's weekly newsletter.
>
> We already have twitter which is nice. Adding some of the above to the homepage would be awesome. What do you all think?
>
>
> Andrei

Great idea. In my opinion, priority should be given to answering the question "what are people doing with D?" Announcements of the latest additions and updates for Dub, plus links to posts like house hunting with D, all make a good impression.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:34:36 -0800
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>
wrote:

> With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is dynamic about D?
> 
> So it hit me like a hammer:
> 
> * Forum discussions (this!)
won't it be better to feature only D.announce? this way there will be a constant flow of new/updated project, but site will not be burden by (sometimes very hot) discussions. i don't think that people who are visiting the site cares about discussions much, but i'm pretty sure that they want to see info on new projects.