> > Do any of these other suggestions have a mailing list interface?
GitHub's issue tracking interface does. On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 3:59:51 PM UTC-4, Robert DJ wrote: > > 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? >>> >>
