> > -1 to re-purposing GitHub issues for any sort of free-form discussion. I > don't see that as solving any problems. At scale, the GitHub issue tracker > is limited even for the intended purpose. >
The main reason I mentioned it was that it was a solid example of the kind of features I had always felt Google Groups lacked. But... I do like Discourse because of the auto-suggestion, tiered moderation, > proper threading, categorization, and other features that would (hopefully) > *cut down* on the number of pings we see. Discourse also has at least > one-way GitHub cross-linking (mentioning a GitHub issue in discourse will > expand to a short summary, IIRC). > ...that basically sums up everything I'd want in a new mailing list. I just gave their sandbox <http://try.discourse.org/> a whirl, and it looks awesome, especially the onebox feature (that would be *really* great for seeing where commits/PRs lead without having to click on them). Discourse has my vote, if the idea of moving the mailing list ever takes flight. On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 1:37:01 PM UTC-4, Miguel Bazdresch wrote: > > Personally, I'd prefer to just have an old-fashioned, LISTERV-type mailing > list. Yes, I'm old. > > -- mb > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Nils Gudat <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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? >> > >
