• WebFreak001 (7/7) Sep 04 2020 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the
• bachmeier (10/17) Sep 04 2020 I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if it's
• JN (16/25) Sep 04 2020 I don't think announcements is a good match. Announcements is for
• Adam D. Ruppe (5/7) Sep 04 2020 That's why I like the idea of one combined feed of short posts:
• Adam D. Ruppe (4/5) Sep 07 2020 silly name i will prolly move it later but here's the little
• Martin Tschierschke (7/13) Sep 10 2020 You should put this (with the link to your blog about) on
• aberba (2/13) Sep 04 2020 I promise to flood it with a lot of noise.
• Seb (11/17) Sep 04 2020 Yes, but it requires the action of three people:
• aberba (6/24) Sep 05 2020 That's because most of those are outside the interesting
• Seb (6/31) Sep 07 2020 You misunderstood me.
• Jacob Carlborg (5/6) Sep 10 2020 What's wrong with DWT? GUI is quite a hot topic in these forums from
• Guillaume Piolat (2/7) Sep 04 2020 Yes please!
• Martin Tschierschke (9/16) Sep 04 2020 That sounds very good! And if something looks attractive enough,
• Andrej Mitrovic (7/14) Sep 04 2020 I think it's a great idea. In particular because Github doesn't
• aberba (2/9) Sep 07 2020 Please let's make the Projects subforum happen
• JN (3/14) Sep 10 2020 Has anything been done in this direction already? Did we get any
• James Lu (3/10) Sep 11 2020 What if we added a Gratitude forum? I love the wholesome vibes I
• bachmeier (2/14) Sep 11 2020 That would be a largely empty forum.

WebFreak001 <d.forum webfreak.org> writes:

I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
announce forums 
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

I think having a Projects list between General and Announce would 
fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if it's 
not very active. Someone new to the language could get the 
impression that a few projects were started here and there, and 
now they're all dead. There would need to be regular project 
updates (even if they're small). The number of project-related 
posts in the announce forum is not encouraging. I suppose it's 
possible that announce is currently used only for major 
announcements. It wouldn't look good if that's all we had in a 
subforum dedicated to projects.

JN <666total wp.pl> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 13:56:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if it's 
 not very active. Someone new to the language could get the 
 impression that a few projects were started here and there, and 
 now they're all dead. There would need to be regular project 
 updates (even if they're small). The number of project-related 
 posts in the announce forum is not encouraging. I suppose it's 
 possible that announce is currently used only for major 
 announcements. It wouldn't look good if that's all we had in a 
 subforum dedicated to projects.

I don't think announcements is a good match. Announcements is for 
releases and of certain quality, things people are proud to show 
to others. I imagine Projects would be full of WIP projects, 
something people are experimenting on. I assume there are many 
people working on stuff in D, which they never finish so you 
never learn about those.

Also, sometimes I try to show D to my friends and coworkers. They 

Java, C++, but they aren't aware of less mainstream languages 
like Go, Rust, D, Nim etc. First question they ask me is "what 
kind of stuff people do with D"? I wish I could point them to 
this forum for them to look around. I usually show them the old 
dsource forums http://dsource.org/forums/ as "what people used D 
for", but it's not active anymore so it's not a good reference 
either.

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 13:56:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if it's 
 not very active.

That's why I like the idea of one combined feed of short posts: 
should keep some activity and people can just scroll down and get 
some idea of variety.

I'll prolly code my little thingy over the weekend.

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 14:25:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 I'll prolly code my little thingy over the weekend.

silly name i will prolly move it later but here's the little 
thingy i made up:

https://dwidder.arsdnet.net/

Martin Tschierschke <mt smartdolphin.de> writes:

On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 20:52:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 14:25:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
 wrote:
 I'll prolly code my little thingy over the weekend.

 silly name i will prolly move it later but here's the little 
 thingy i made up:

 https://dwidder.arsdnet.net/


You should put this (with the link to your blog about) on 
announce (if you are satisfied with the functionality?).

And what about linking it from code.dlang.org to invite people 
just publishing updates or new DUB packages to write a few words 
about?

Regards mt.

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 13:56:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 [...]

 I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if it's 
 not very active. Someone new to the language could get the 
 impression that a few projects were started here and there, and 
 now they're all dead. There would need to be regular project 
 updates (even if they're small). The number of project-related 
 posts in the announce forum is not encouraging. I suppose it's 
 possible that announce is currently used only for major 
 announcements. It wouldn't look good if that's all we had in a 
 subforum dedicated to projects.

I promise to flood it with a lot of noise.

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

Yes, but it requires the action of three people:
- Vladimir (for DFeed, i.e. forum.dlang.org)
- Walter (for NNTP)
- Brad (for the mailing list, e.g. 
http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/digitalmars-d-announce)

Ping me if you miss the contact details for them.

PS: It would be a lot easier if DFeed would managed everything ...

 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 13:56:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if it's 
 not very active.

We already have this problem with the other subforums that aren't 
used anymore.
They really should be removed or at least hidden from the web 
interface.

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 23:16:59 UTC, Seb wrote:
 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 Yes, but it requires the action of three people:
 - Vladimir (for DFeed, i.e. forum.dlang.org)
 - Walter (for NNTP)
 - Brad (for the mailing list, e.g. 
 http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/digitalmars-d-announce)

 Ping me if you miss the contact details for them.

 PS: It would be a lot easier if DFeed would managed everything 
 ...

 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 13:56:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
 I'm generally supportive of this, but it could backfire if 
 it's not very active.

 We already have this problem with the other subforums that 
 aren't used anymore.

That's because most of those are outside the interesting 
areas...DWT,  Study (Andrei's thing), ....


But for projects...if people are not hacking around and doing 
stuff in the language, what else is its use? The dlang discord is 
full of projects and experiments...if only you're onnit.


 They really should be removed or at least hidden from the web 
 interface.

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 12:54:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 23:16:59 UTC, Seb wrote:
 [...]

 Yes, but it requires the action of three people:
 - Vladimir (for DFeed, i.e. forum.dlang.org)
 - Walter (for NNTP)
 - Brad (for the mailing list, e.g. 
 http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/digitalmars-d-announce)

 Ping me if you miss the contact details for them.

 PS: It would be a lot easier if DFeed would managed everything 
 ...

 [...]

 We already have this problem with the other subforums that 
 aren't used anymore.

 That's because most of those are outside the interesting 
 areas...DWT,  Study (Andrei's thing), ....


 But for projects...if people are not hacking around and doing 
 stuff in the language, what else is its use? The dlang discord 
 is full of projects and experiments...if only you're onnit.


 They really should be removed or at least hidden from the web 
 interface.


You misunderstood me.
I was arguing that we already have this problem, hence obviously 
it can't be such a big deal.

My point that these old forums (no activity > 1 year) should be 
hidden/removed wasn't directed at the projects repository.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2020-09-05 14:54, aberba wrote:

 That's because most of those are outside the interesting areas...DWT

What's wrong with DWT? GUI is quite a hot topic in these forums from 
time to time.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Guillaume Piolat <first.name gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?


Yes please!

Martin Tschierschke <mt smartdolphin.de> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

That sounds very good! And if something looks attractive enough, 
it might become a blog post later. (=> Mike Parker)

We have so many updates at https://code.dlang.org/ (1855 
packages!) and probably many others are using exactly this 
packages to try something new, it would be quite interesting to 
learn, what the Dlang professionals most active in the forum are 
working on.

+1

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

I think it's a great idea. In particular because Github doesn't 
make it easy to discover D projects. For example the page on 
https://github.com/topics/d doesn't have the ability to sort by 
create date. Plus it might show up projects that are completely 
empty. And of course people might be using a different DVCS host 
altogether.

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

Please let's make the Projects subforum happen

JN <666total wp.pl> writes:

On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 18:51:43 UTC, aberba wrote:
 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

 Please let's make the Projects subforum happen

Has anything been done in this direction already? Did we get any 
feedback from the people in charge?

James Lu <jamtlu gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

What if we added a Gratitude forum? I love the wholesome vibes I 
get from the D community and I'd love to preserve it.

bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:

On Friday, 11 September 2020 at 14:44:54 UTC, James Lu wrote:
 On Friday, 4 September 2020 at 09:10:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 I don't know why this was brought up on the silq post on the 
 announce forums 
 (https://forum.dlang.org/post/ghbdinuaigakgobgnajj forum.dlang.org) but I
really like the idea of having a forum for started, work-in-progress or
finished projects.

 I would like to ask here more generally: can we get a Projects 
 sub forum / mailing list on forum.dlang.org?

 I think having a Projects list between General and Announce 
 would fit quite well and I do like the idea of it a lot.

 What if we added a Gratitude forum? I love the wholesome vibes 
 I get from the D community and I'd love to preserve it.

That would be a largely empty forum.