Hi all, There's been some chatter about maybe switching to a new, more modern forum platform for Julia that could potentially subsume julia-users, julia-dev, julia-stats, julia-gpu, and julia-jobs. I created http://julia.malmaud.com for us to try one out and see if we like it. Please check it out and leave feedback. All the old posts from julia-users have already been imported to it.
It is using Discourse <http://www.discourse.org/faq/>, the same forum software used for the forums of Rust <https://users.rust-lang.org>, BoingBoing, and some other big sites. Benefits over Google Groups include better support for topic tagging, community moderation features, Markdown (and hence syntax highlighting) in messages, inline previews of linked-to Github issues, better mobile support, and more options for controlling when and what you get emailed. The Discourse website <http://www.discourse.org/faq/> does a better job of summarizing the advantages than I could. To get things started, MIke Innes suggested having a topic on what we plan on working on this coming wee <http://julia.malmaud.com/t/whats-everyone-working-on-this-week-9-19-2015-9-26/3155>k. I think that's a great idea. Just to be clear, this isn't "official" in any sense - it's just to kickstart the discussion. -Jon
