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January 25, 2015 defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not relating to D, defunct, very low activity. This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp. Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click here"? |
January 25, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc | On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>
> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>
> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click
> here"?
We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.
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January 25, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Rikki Cattermole | On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>
>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>
>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click
>> here"?
>
> We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
> I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.
why not just edit the forum source ?
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January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc | On 1/25/15 2:41 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a > long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not > relating to D, defunct, very low activity. > > This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp. > > Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying > "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click > here"? Related: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14045 Andrei |
January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Andrei Alexandrescu | On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 00:29:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/25/15 2:41 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>
>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>
>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click
>> here"?
>
> Related: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14045
>
> Andrei
Should the newsgroups themselves be renamed? I don't know nntp, or what the implications of that are - presumably that breaks everyone's reader and so not worth the trouble since only experienced people will read the groups that way, and so just the web alias changes, which is I think what you suggested.
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January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc | On 26/01/2015 12:42 p.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>>
>>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>>
>>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click
>>> here"?
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>> We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
>> I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.
>
> why not just edit the forum source ?
Its not a forum. Its a news group web interface. Which just so happens to be DFeed.
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January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Rikki Cattermole | On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 01:55:32 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 26/01/2015 12:42 p.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 22:45:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>> On 26/01/2015 11:41 a.m., Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>>> When one checks out the D community / forums, one is confronted with a
>>>> long list of forums, most of which fall into the categories: not
>>>> relating to D, defunct, very low activity.
>>>>
>>>> This is initially a bit confusing, and is not very crisp.
>>>>
>>>> Is it worth having only the active ones displayed with a link saying
>>>> "looking for the old digital mars forums, or previous D forums? click
>>>> here"?
>>>
>>> We could probably hide them with some css and javascript.
>>> I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though.
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>> why not just edit the forum source ?
>
> Its not a forum. Its a news group web interface. Which just so happens to be DFeed.
I regret the imprecision with which I spoke, but it does not change what seems to be the best way to fix it. Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without - very confusing to see the forums change names (if I understood correctly). Sounds like that is what Herr Alexandrescu had in mind too with the related pull.
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January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Laeeth Isharc Attachments: | On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is no sense to make anything else working right without js.
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January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to ketmar | On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:13:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
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>> Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
> dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is no sense to make
> anything else working right without js.
dlang.org should work just fine without JS. Same goes for the forums, but of course you won't be able to use the JS-powered horizontal-split view mode.
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January 26, 2015 Re: defunct / stale forums on front page | ||||
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Posted in reply to Vladimir Panteleev | On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:36:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:13:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
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>>> Imagine you move from a javascript browser to one without
>> dlang.org is imfunctional without js, so there is no sense to make
>> anything else working right without js.
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> dlang.org should work just fine without JS. Same goes for the forums, but of course you won't be able to use the JS-powered horizontal-split view mode.
Understood - I meant in relation to this: "We could probably hide them with some css and javascript. I'm not familiar with DFeed to actually do it though."
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