On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:32:21 AM UTC+1, Tamas Papp wrote: > > I don't see an alternative given my preferences --- as I said, I don't > want to deal with different web interfaces. Also, sometimes I work > offline.
I see how that can work for you. But don't all such forums support email? Of course, if you use emails, there is no incentive to switch. > Fixed width font takes care of indentation. For short code snippets, I > can live without highlighting, for longer code I prefer if people post > it as a gist. > I guess many of my problems with the current forum are purely aesthetic. The fixed-width font is ugly, the highlighting is mostly just copied over colors, half the time posters just can't be bothered to mark it as code (though that could happen on any forum, highlighting seems to be gently enforced on, say, stack overflow, since it looks so much better). Inline code is apparently possible, but I cannot figure out how. Any sort of fancy layout, layout when quoting documentation, etc. is missing. Quoting of posts you reply to look bad, line widths are all over the place. Everything just looks plain dated and untidy. My impression of this discussion, and the one here <https://julia.malmaud.com/t/is-this-forum-better-than-julia-users/46> is that most people are indifferent. Is everyone is just using emails?
