BTW, like HackerNews, the D forums don't allow emojis, icons, javascript, multiple fonts, and all that nonsense. Just text. What a relief!

So it just like email list which have an archive - except you can't use email clients but instead can use web-based interface?

You can use the web interface if you post:

https://forum.dlang.org/

The static pages are there for browsing. They load fast, and I like the entire thread being on one page. No clickety-clicking and forgetting where you are in a forest of postings.

^_^ sucks when you actually need to talk about emoji though :/

Stating the Unicode code points as U+1F4A9 or (D syntax) \U0001F4A9 is a reasonable workaround.

I think OP meant cases like, "I need to process a string with this emoji in D" etc

Would you ever need to talk about a specific emoji?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

a forum is just a webinterface for a mailinglist.

they are both messages in threads. what's different is the presentation.

some of the forums i use support both seamlessly, and i can choose which interface i prefer.

of course for the issue we are discussing, presentation is what matters. but, for most forums i do not believe they would have made it any easier to not miss a message. just look at hackernews. it is actually quite difficult to track which messages i have not read yet, (even if there is a marker on what's new) and it is therefore very easy to miss some.

that is not the case with email. because my mail client tracks the rad/unread status for each message. the problem with RMS has nothing to do with the form of a mailing list but with his particular async style of accessing the internet.