>> Do any of these other suggestions have a mailing list interface?
>
> GitHub's issue tracking interface does.

In my email client the threading doesn't seem to work well with github
issue-emails, so I end up using the web interface most of the time.
Otherwise it might work well.  I had a quick look around on the
internet, not many projects seem to use issues as mailing list.  I only
found these:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-houdini/2015Sep/0004.html
https://github.com/hapijs/discuss/issues

@-notifications could be quite nice.  Maybe it would be best if this was
tried out with a large Julia project to see the ins and outs?
Volunteers?

> 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?
>>>>
>>>

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