I'm not a fan of Google, so I think it would great to find another forum. Besides, I fully agree with the technical issues mentioned.
Regarding the need for user accounts on e.g. GitHub, I don't see how that is different from requiring a Google account for participating here... On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 5:33:33 PM UTC+2, Jarrett Revels wrote: > > 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? >> >
