Discourse lives! On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote:
> I got the go ahead from Jeff and Viral to give this a try, then it didn't > end up panning out. It would still be worth a try, imo. > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 11:55 AM, mmh <mumo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> Seems like this has kind of burnt out. Is there still an impetus on a >> transition. >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >
