As far as I can tell the only advantage of a traditional forum format over the web interface to the mailing lists ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users) is the sort of category breakdown you mention. For me though, the extra organization isn't typically that useful, and there is already some high-level split up between the julia lists (julia-dev, julia-users, julia-stats, etc.) Between the existing lists and GitHub issues discussions, I don't think I'd be a fan of adding additional places to discuss (and search for previous information).
-s On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Don Gateley <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm hoping someone puts together a phpBB (or similar) site such as Oculus > Rift uses here: http://oculusrift.com/ > > Such an organized site where you could drill down to topics of interest > through broader categories would really be helpful. It would be best, of > course, if it was set up and accessed through julialang.org as something > official. > > I don't know how to do that or I would. It isn't reputed to be very > difficult to set up a phpBB site and I'm sorta hoping some enthusiast who > does know how picks up on it. > >
