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Dlang did it right, a mailing list that act like a forum [1] with various instant messaging bots (IRC, Discord, Matrix) I wish more projects would take inspir
by WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago
Dlang did it right, a mailing list that act like a forum [1] with various instant messaging bots (IRC, Discord, Matrix)
I wish more projects would take inspiration from them, the software is open source [2]
[1] - https://forum.dlang.org/ https://forum.dlang.org/
[2] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/ https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/
- gizzlon 3y agoLooks great, and fast too! How does the integration work? Can you post to the forum, and it's then mailed out.. ?
- WhereIsTheTruth 3y agoI'm not familiar with the codebase, but from my understanding it saves messages in a database [1], then periodically send out a formatted email to people who subscribed to the thread/group [2] Anyone can post on the forum, you just have to provide an email address (you don't have to register, but they can enforce it) [1] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/web/web/posting.d#L206 https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/w... [2] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/sinks/subscriptions.d#L816 https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/s...