Wow this looks great. Much better than google groups which is rather annoying in many respects. Looking forward to using this sometime in the future. Do you think mathjax support for latex equations would be useful for a Julia forum?
On Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 8:16:36 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote: > > 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 > > >
