Re: [boost] Boost documentation with ability for users to post comments

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost documentation with ability for users to post comments
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-05 15:04:39

On Friday 05 June 2015 11:42:46 Robert Ramey wrote:
> On 6/5/15 10:32 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Krzysztof Jusiak <krzysztof_at_[hidden]>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> I have recently added such functionality to Boost.DI documentation using
> >> https://disqus.com service.
> 
> This looks extremely interesting to me.  Very slick and very worthy of
> consideration. Bears more investigation.
> 
> > Note the TOS for Disqus:
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> If I understand this correctly, this would only apply to those who
> actually post a comment.  It looks like others would have no problem
> seeing such comments.  So this might be for everyone - but then the same
> applies to boost itself.
> 
> As I said - I think it bears looking into and would like to get feedback
> from others on this idea.

Personally, I'm not sure there's much value from this. Except, perhaps, as an 
easy way to report typos, errors and such, but then the comments themselves 
don't suit this activity very well. I'm looking at MSDN, for instance, and not 
seeing much value in the comments there - looks more like a mini version of 
StackOverflow.