Re: yet another Ada web site?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 2022-09-30 13:29, shtps wrote:
> Am 27.08.22 um 11:12 schrieb Rene:
>> Maxim Reznik wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I wonder does Ada community need yet another web site?
>>>
>>> My idea is here:
>>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/ada/comments/wx9zp1/yet_another_ada_web_site/
>>
>> Maybe a web forum would be a good idea, because many people nowadays 
>> see Usenet newgroups as an outdated thing. So the fact that the 
>> community mostly relies on comp.lang.ada may turn them off.
>> (I Don't want to discuss wether Uset actually outdated or not, but I 
>> guess many people feel this way)
>>
>>
> 
> How about a web forum as a front end to comp.lang.ada? While accessing 
> Usenet through dedicated programs is considered old fashioned


Some may consider it old fashioned, but I very much prefer Usenet to all 
the web forum systems I've seen and tried to avoid using. I suspect many 
on comp.lang.ada share this view.

Some mail programs such as Thunderbird can also access Usenet, so you 
don't have to use a dedicated program. Well, unless you always use 
webmail for your mail.


> the underlying protocol has stood the test of time and could be used
> together with a fancy web interface (such as a forum).

That's what Google Groups does for comp.lang.ada, and sucks at it (or so 
I have heard, I've never used it myself).