On Friday, 9 December 2011 at 19:01:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Great. The remaining mid-term issue is as follows. Right now you own the database, which entails some fiduciary responsibilities. Think "unexpected": if e.g. you get hit by a bus (God forbid), the database is virtually lost. This scenario is solved by your granting e.g. Walter access to the server, so he can copy the database and possibly migrate the installation.
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> But then say you and Walter have a huge disagreement over a core issue, which makes you furious. Then you could revoke Walter's login and/or destroy the database. And so on.

I must confess I have not considered for such a possibility. You are welcome to make periodic backups, of course.

> Also, privacy is not a biggie right now because the database contains public information plus some simple preferences, but later you could store additional information of various degrees of sensitivity. So you would in fact responsible for users' privacy, but d-programming-language.org is the ostensible responsible.

Once the software is stable enough, we could move it together with the database to a DigitalMars server. Software solutions might also be possible (e.g. encrypting user data with their passwords).

Another possibility is to simply make it clear who is responsible for the data.

On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 14:06:48 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 13:51:21 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> * Support syntax highlighting for blocks enclosed with --- like DDoc does, maybe other types of blocks too such as {{{}}} that trac uses, or whatever github uses.
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> I'm not very excited about the idea of introducing formatting features that only users of this web interface will see. Frequent use of such features would annoy users of other interfaces, and there's the risk of accidentally activating them.

You do realize that > is a formatting feature, and like ---- it is visible to others. As a language news group having a way to segregate code would be useful even if only to be fixed. Reddit uses for leading spaces?

On Saturday, �� December 2011 at 00:10:26 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> You do realize that > is a formatting feature, and like ---- it is visible to others. As a language news group having a way to segregate code would be useful even if only to be fixed. Reddit uses for leading spaces?

Using ">" for quotes is a widely-implemented standard (see e.g. RFC 3676) which applies directly to our situation.

On Saturday, 10 December 2011 at 07:07:11 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Saturday, �� December 2011 at 00:10:26 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> You do realize that > is a formatting feature, and like ---- it is visible to others. As a language news group having a way to segregate code would be useful even if only to be fixed. Reddit uses for leading spaces?
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> Using ">" for quotes is a widely-implemented standard (see e.g. RFC 3676) which applies directly to our situation.

How do you feel about creating a setting that would make ---- regions formatted for code? Possibly default off.

Somebody might want this enough to send a patch.

/Jonas