Hi all, I've set up a Discourse Julia forum at http://julia.malmaud.com/ so that we can evaluate as a community how well we like Discourse. It has most of the old posts from julia-users and julia-dev imported. Would be good if people gave it a whirl and left feedback.
On Monday, September 14, 2015 at 9:56:15 PM UTC-4, Patrick Kofod Mogensen wrote: > > I know I am super late to the game. I just wanted to mention that there is > also the subreddit /r/Julia, which is very much a "julia-users" kind of > sub. It doesn't have auto-suggestion, but it does have basic markdown for > code. In case people where looking for a place to stay until a more > elaborate forum is established. > > I'm not necessarily that discontent with google groups, but it just told > me that a thread had been updated - well yes Google, but _I_ wrote that new > post you're telling me about... > > 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? >> >
