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 > > >
