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Honestly, the new DLang forum design is probably one of the best looking online forums out there. Also IIRC the backend was written in D from scratch; certainly gives the language lot of credit given its speed

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I'd love to take the credit for the forum software, but it belongs to Vladimir Panteleev. I had ranted on the D newsgroups now and then everything I hated about modern forum software (in response to the perennial question "why use NNTP when there's all these great forum software packages?"), and Vladimir took it to heart and created the D forum software!

Probably the only case where my incessant whining actually paid off.

I did write a formatter for the newsgroup postings to turn them into web pages, but it is read only, and doesn't look as good as Vladimir's:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.ht...

I read they were written in D too, is that true. Makes me want to give D another look. I used it a bit but various issues made me drift away from it.

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