Do any of these other suggestions have a mailing list interface? That seems critical, I bet lots of people never touch the Google groups UI and just use this as a traditional mailing list, which is very convenient.
From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jarrett Revels Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 8:34 AM To: julia-users <julia-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: [julia-users] Re: META: What are the chances of moving this forum? I often find myself wishing that this forum was just a GitHub repo, with posts as issues. It would be great for supporting @-style mentions, markdown, issue-linking, etc. The main downside would be forcing everybody to have GitHub account (not bad IMO, but I can see others having an issue for it). It would probably be a bad idea to upheave the forums, anyway, especially at such a critical moment in Julia's development (v0.4 getting released soon). I doubt this is going to happen. On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:34:58 AM UTC-4, Nils Gudat wrote: Was just thinking about this as first I had to try opening a thread here a couple of times before any posts were actually displayed, and then read through this <http://discuss.junolab.org/t/how-to-let-julia-be-the-boss-of-juno-windows-windows-issue/320> thread on Mike's Juno Discuss forum, where a user had a question which was almost answered by the nice auto-suggestion feature that pops up when you ask a question. I feel that Google Groups has mostly downsides - the system is slow, with posts frequently not loading, double posts because of this, no proper code formatting or Markdown support etc. Is there a chance this could be moved to something like Discuss or is there too much inertia in having an "established" forum on Google Groups?
