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Yes, and I have 100% of the D newsgroups archived back to the very first post. Anyone can get them from the D NNTP server. I also wrote a program to create static web pages from them:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver

and the generated pages:

https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html

When we were working on the history of the D programming language paper, this was an invaluable resource.

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Back when I was first learning about D (over 10 years ago), I crawled those archives and sorted all the posts based on the comment count. It revealed many interesting topics and the history of how D progressed as a language.

I wish forum.dlang.org had a quick way of browsing just the top list of the most commented posts.

Good idea. Never thought of that!

Well it is open sourced on GitHub you are welcome to make tickets. Maybe thats a small type of enhancement the D forums could benefit from. Filters that produce informative pages / results.

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