I often find myself wishing that this forum was just a GitHub repo, with posts as issues. It would be great for supporting @-style mentions, markdown, issue-linking, etc. The main downside would be forcing everybody to have GitHub account (not bad IMO, but I can see others having an issue for it).
It would probably be a bad idea to upheave the forums, anyway, especially at such a critical moment in Julia's development (v0.4 getting released soon). I doubt this is going to happen. On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:34:58 AM UTC-4, Nils Gudat wrote: > > Was just thinking about this as first I had to try opening a thread here a > couple of times before any posts were actually displayed, and then read > through this > <http://discuss.junolab.org/t/how-to-let-julia-be-the-boss-of-juno-windows-windows-issue/320> > > thread on Mike's Juno Discuss forum, where a user had a question which was > almost answered by the nice auto-suggestion feature that pops up when you > ask a question. > > I feel that Google Groups has mostly downsides - the system is slow, with > posts frequently not loading, double posts because of this, no proper code > formatting or Markdown support etc. > > Is there a chance this could be moved to something like Discuss or is > there too much inertia in having an "established" forum on Google Groups? >
