I installed a mathjax plugin to Discourse. Try it 
out! http://julia.malmaud.com/t/testing-mathjax-plugin/3203/1

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 4:51:04 PM UTC-4, feza wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>

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