• guest (5/5) Jan 03 2007 who likes this forum-SW ???
• Alexander Panek (3/10) Jan 03 2007 This is a newsgroup, and the Forum is just a web interface for the NNTP
• Lars Ivar Igesund (6/13) Jan 03 2007 It's just a frontend to the NNTP newsgroup, the best forum there is ;)
• janderson (3/10) Jan 03 2007 I'd recommend using a newsreader like Thunderbird and the web version su...
• Kyle Furlong (2/16) Jan 03 2007 Seconded, though any threaded NNTP client will do.
• Unknown W. Brackets (5/12) Jan 03 2007 Some people really like newsgroups and threaded discussion. There have
• Ameer Armaly (6/11) Jan 04 2007 I believe a while back a few people kicked around the idea of creating a...
• Chris Nicholson-Sauls (6/21) Jan 04 2007 I'm interested. Was actually talking about this very thing with a frien...
• janderson (7/22) Jan 04 2007 I think forums/newsgroups are one of the biggest factors in hooking and
• Unknown W. Brackets (21/36) Jan 06 2007 I used to be the lead developer for SMF, the software mentioned. I've
• Daniel919 (4/4) Jan 05 2007 Some time ago, "Web-News" was setted up:

guest <guest dm.com> writes:

who likes this forum-SW ???
(i think it's a PITA)

what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot

thx

Alexander Panek <a.panek brainsware.org> writes:

guest wrote:
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)
 
 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot
 
 thx

This is a newsgroup, and the Forum is just a web interface for the NNTP 
based 'forum'.

Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

guest wrote:

 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)
 
 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot
 
 thx

It's just a frontend to the NNTP newsgroup, the best forum there is ;)

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource & #D: larsivi

janderson <askme me.com> writes:

guest wrote:
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)
 
 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot
 
 thx


I'd recommend using a newsreader like Thunderbird and the web version sucks.

-Joel

Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> writes:

janderson wrote:
 guest wrote:
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)

 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot

 thx

 
 
 I'd recommend using a newsreader like Thunderbird and the web version 
 sucks.
 
 -Joel

Seconded, though any threaded NNTP client will do.

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

Some people really like newsgroups and threaded discussion.  There have 
been long threads about this previously.

By the way - I like SMF too ;).  Regardless, I don't think it's within 
Walter's comfort zone...

-[Unknown]


 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)
 
 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot
 
 thx

"Ameer Armaly" <ameer_armaly hotmail.com> writes:

"guest" <guest dm.com> wrote in message 
news:eng89a$8qm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)

 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot

 thx

I believe a while back a few people kicked around the idea of creating a 
protocol for modern forums, so clients could entirely govern display 
whichever way they wanted as opposed to using a single interface for web 
forums.  Anyone interested in experimenting with this? 

Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> writes:

Ameer Armaly wrote:
 "guest" <guest dm.com> wrote in message 
 news:eng89a$8qm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)

 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot

 thx

 I believe a while back a few people kicked around the idea of creating a 
 protocol for modern forums, so clients could entirely govern display 
 whichever way they wanted as opposed to using a single interface for web 
 forums.  Anyone interested in experimenting with this? 
 
 

I'm interested.  Was actually talking about this very thing with a friend a
couple days 
back.  I'd personally like to see support for NNTP, HTTP, and even SMTP/POP
(that's right) 
  all at once from one forum server, with some concept of user accounts so I
can "take my 
settings with me".  Definitely opens the community doors wiiiiiiide.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

janderson <askme me.com> writes:

Ameer Armaly wrote:
 "guest" <guest dm.com> wrote in message 
 news:eng89a$8qm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)

 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot

 thx

 I believe a while back a few people kicked around the idea of creating a 
 protocol for modern forums, so clients could entirely govern display 
 whichever way they wanted as opposed to using a single interface for web 
 forums.  Anyone interested in experimenting with this? 
 
 

I think forums/newsgroups are one of the biggest factors in hooking and 
retaining people to a project.  It would help by a huge amount if D's 
webpage forum didn't suck.  Didn't someone come up with some 
alternatives web viewers in a previous discussion?  Why aren't we using 
one of those?

-Joel

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

I used to be the lead developer for SMF, the software mentioned.  I've 
heard talk about this (not much) before, but the trouble is simple.

Too much competition.  If anyone implemented it, it would just be them. 
  Some have to a degree.... it's really not that hard.  What's hard is 
getting everyone to do it the same way.

It would have to be a third party, anyway.  I was never in a position I 
could make it happen, for this reason.

Anyway, the closest thing currently available is RSS (or other XML feeds 
various forum softwares provide)... which you can read in your favorite 
client already.  You just can't respond without going to the actual 
forum software.

NNTP support is available for a few softwares, but it's just not very 
popular.

SMTP/POP is available for some softwares, but the trouble with it being 
out-of-the-box is that it is difficult, on many servers, to configure it 
properly... and worse, authentication is a lot of trouble.  The From 
address is about as trustworthy as your daily lump of spam.

Walter also seems to have a general dislike of generated web content 
(but somehow generated content over protocols other than HTTP are more 
okay...?)  Just a feeling I've gotten from his posts on the subject.

-[Unknown]


 "guest" <guest dm.com> wrote in message 
 news:eng89a$8qm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 who likes this forum-SW ???
 (i think it's a PITA)

 what do you think about a SMF forum (for example)
 it would be enhance readability and convenience a lot

 thx

 I believe a while back a few people kicked around the idea of creating a 
 protocol for modern forums, so clients could entirely govern display 
 whichever way they wanted as opposed to using a single interface for web 
 forums.  Anyone interested in experimenting with this? 
 
 

Daniel919 <Daniel919 web.de> writes:

Some time ago, "Web-News" was setted up:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

Since then I am only using this one, it's more readable.
Did you recognize it ? Maybe Walter should make it the default web frontend.