Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[daycaster]

... @juliaheartbeat on twitter also started silent running on Sept 17...

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Patrick Kofod Mogensen]

And worst of all, no Julia-speedometer at 
http://nirajkadu.me/index.php/about/ either!

On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 9:23:39 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> Yikes... recycled static IP address :|
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM, mmh  
> wrote:
>
>> http://julia.malmaud.com 
>> 
>>
>> Now links to some random dudes website :P
>>
>> On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 3:39:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>>
>>> Discourse lives! 
>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM Stefan Karpinski  
>>> 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  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 , the same 
>> forum software used for the forums of Rust 
>> , 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  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 
>> 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
>>
>>
>>

>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Stefan Karpinski]

Yikes... recycled static IP address :|

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM, mmh  wrote:

> http://julia.malmaud.com
> 
>
> Now links to some random dudes website :P
>
> On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 3:39:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>
>> Discourse lives!
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM Stefan Karpinski 
>> 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  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 , the same forum
> software used for the forums of Rust ,
> 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
>  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
> 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
>
>
>
>>>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[mmh]

http://julia.malmaud.com 


Now links to some random dudes website :P

On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 3:39:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> Discourse lives! 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM Stefan Karpinski  > 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  
>> 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 , the same forum 
 software used for the forums of Rust , 
 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 
  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 
 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



>>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Marius Millea]

+1 for Discourse, which I could have done without spamming the list with 
another message if this were Discourse :)

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Jonathan Malmaud]

Discourse lives!
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM Stefan Karpinski 
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  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 , the same forum
>>> software used for the forums of Rust ,
>>> 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
>>>  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
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Stefan Karpinski]

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  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 , the same forum
>> software used for the forums of Rust ,
>> 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
>>  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
>> 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
>>
>>
>>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Jonathan Malmaud]

Yes

Sent from my iPad

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Po Choi  wrote:
> 
> Does it support MathJax?
> 
>> On Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 5:16:36 PM UTC-7, 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, the same forum software used for the forums of Rust, 
>> 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 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 week. 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
>> 
>> 

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Patrick Kofod Mogensen]

Ah, my bad. I (also back when this thread started) thought it was meant to 
be used "now", and if people seemed to be switching by themselves, there 
would be an official change. Sorry for the misunderstanding :)

On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 9:20:41 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> That site is just a tech demo so we can see what it would be like to 
> switch to Discourse; it wouldn't be in actual use until a decision was made 
> to switch over to it. 
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:10 PM Patrick Kofod Mogensen <
> patrick@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>> Isn't it dead? Latest posts seem to be from October last year, or am I 
>> looking at the wrong forum? Obviously, people don't mind this format.
>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Stefan Karpinski]

The official switch would include using discourse.julialang.org as the
domain and up-to-date transfer of threads.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Malmaud  wrote:

> That site is just a tech demo so we can see what it would be like to
> switch to Discourse; it wouldn't be in actual use until a decision was made
> to switch over to it.
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:10 PM Patrick Kofod Mogensen <
> patrick.mogen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Isn't it dead? Latest posts seem to be from October last year, or am I
>> looking at the wrong forum? Obviously, people don't mind this format.
>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Patrick Kofod Mogensen]

Isn't it dead? Latest posts seem to be from October last year, or am I looking 
at the wrong forum? Obviously, people don't mind this format.

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Tom Breloff]

Just to throw in my $0.02... I use gmail most of the time, and I have a few
filters to auto-partition into a directory structure I like which combines
github and google groups emails.  If I could no longer do this I would be
disappointed.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Mauro  wrote:

> I second Tamas: a good email interface is a must.  This seems to be
> lacking currently:
> https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140
>
> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:32, Tamas Papp  wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using
> the
> >> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I always
> >> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no
> indentation, no
> >> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you
> >> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Tamas
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Tamas Papp]

I don't know about others, but for me it is hard to beat e-mail. Plain
text is fine for code.

The problem with various forums is that each community has a different
one. I would prefer not to deal with N web interfaces, no matter how
nice and featureful, instead of my nicely customized inbox in Emacs.

Best,

Tamas

On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote:

> So, what happened to this experiment?
>
> Has the move been abandoned, or just been put on ice? The Google forum
> looks pretty primitive, and especially reading code is a real pain. But is
> there just not a lot of enthusiasm for the new platform? On the surface it
> looks vastly superior, but I don't understand much about the administration
> tools etc.

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[DNF]

Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using the 
email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I always 
thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'.

But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no indentation, no 
syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you 
able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup?


On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:16:47 AM UTC+1, Tamas Papp wrote:
>
> I don't know about others, but for me it is hard to beat e-mail. Plain 
> text is fine for code. 
>
> The problem with various forums is that each community has a different 
> one. I would prefer not to deal with N web interfaces, no matter how 
> nice and featureful, instead of my nicely customized inbox in Emacs. 
>
> Best, 
>
> Tamas 
>
> On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote: 
>
> > So, what happened to this experiment? 
> > 
> > Has the move been abandoned, or just been put on ice? The Google forum 
> > looks pretty primitive, and especially reading code is a real pain. But 
> is 
> > there just not a lot of enthusiasm for the new platform? On the surface 
> it 
> > looks vastly superior, but I don't understand much about the 
> administration 
> > tools etc. 
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Tamas Papp]

On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote:

> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using the
> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I always
> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'.

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.

> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no indentation, no
> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you
> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup?

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.

Best,

Tamas

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Mauro]

I second Tamas: a good email interface is a must.  This seems to be
lacking currently:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:32, Tamas Papp  wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using the
>> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I always
>> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'.
>
> 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.
>
>> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no indentation, no
>> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you
>> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup?
>
> 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.
>
> Best,
>
> Tamas

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[DNF]

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 
 is 
that most people are indifferent. Is everyone is just using emails?

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Charles Novaes de Santana]

My $0.02: I consider julia-users as a mailing-list. In general, my main
communication is through emails. I write the posts to the mailing list
using a webmail interface, but I use to read the posts of others from an
email client or from mobile. Of course I can adapt myself and use another
platform to communicate, but it would certainly take some time to be used
to it. My vote is to keep the mailing list working as it is, even if we
decide to put efforts in the other platform too.

Best,

Charles

On 12 January 2016 at 14:46, Tom Breloff  wrote:

> Just to throw in my $0.02... I use gmail most of the time, and I have a
> few filters to auto-partition into a directory structure I like which
> combines github and google groups emails.  If I could no longer do this I
> would be disappointed.
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Mauro  wrote:
>
>> I second Tamas: a good email interface is a must.  This seems to be
>> lacking currently:
>> https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-interface-suggested-improvements/32140
>>
>> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:32, Tamas Papp  wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 12 2016, DNF wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hmm, I didn't consider that. I *never* read the emails, instead using
>> the
>> >> email notifications as jumping-off points to go into the forum. I
>> always
>> >> thought it strange that people refer to posts as 'mails'.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >> But, surely, plain text for code is *terrible*. Wrong or no
>> indentation, no
>> >> syntax highlighting, no font contrast between code and text? Or are you
>> >> able to achieve some of those with your Emacs setup?
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Tamas
>>
>
>


-- 
Um axé! :)

--
Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
https://github.com/cndesantana

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Jonathan Malmaud]

Hmm, if not a bug, it seems at least like way over-aggressive moderation 
defaults. I'll look into lifting those. 

Sent from my iPad

> On Oct 18, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Seth  wrote:
> 
> "You're replying too quickly. Please wait 277 hours before trying again."
> 
> one comment every 11 days, or is this a bug? (I'd post it there, but)
> 
> 
> 
>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 5:50:21 PM UTC-7, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>> Also just realized there's extensive support for oneboxing (smart inline 
>> expansion of links)  http://julia.malmaud.com/t/testing-oneboxing/3205/1
>> 
>>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 8:27:37 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>> 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, the same forum software used for the forums of 
> Rust, 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 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 week. 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
> 
> 

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Scott Jones]

How much are the DigitalOcean instances?
Your Discourse-based forum seemed so much better than using Google groups, 
it would be very nice to be able to move.

On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:34:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't seem 
> like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3 every 
> night. 
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson  > wrote:
>
>> The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own 
>> servers?  That seems like a huge price to pay.
>>
>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Jonathan Malmaud]

It varies depending on the CPU and RAM specs, but my instance is $10/month.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Scott Jones 
wrote:

> How much are the DigitalOcean instances?
> Your Discourse-based forum seemed so much better than using Google groups,
> it would be very nice to be able to move.
>
> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:34:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>
>> It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't
>> seem like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3
>> every night.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own
>>> servers?  That seems like a huge price to pay.
>>>
>>
>>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Stefan Karpinski]

What about software updates, e.g. if there is a security patch or we need
new features?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Malmaud  wrote:

> It varies depending on the CPU and RAM specs, but my instance is
> $10/month.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Scott Jones 
> wrote:
>
>> How much are the DigitalOcean instances?
>> Your Discourse-based forum seemed so much better than using Google
>> groups, it would be very nice to be able to move.
>>
>> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:34:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>>
>>> It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't
>>> seem like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3
>>> every night.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own
 servers?  That seems like a huge price to pay.

>>>
>>>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Jonathan Malmaud]

On the Discourse admin panel is a one-click button to upgrade to the latest
and to roll back an upgrade, similar to Wordpress. Behind the scenes, the
Discourse software is just a stateless docker image living on the server
which is swapped out during an upgrade. See
https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-update-discourse/10962.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Stefan Karpinski 
wrote:

> What about software updates, e.g. if there is a security patch or we need
> new features?
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Malmaud 
> wrote:
>
>> It varies depending on the CPU and RAM specs, but my instance is
>> $10/month.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Scott Jones 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How much are the DigitalOcean instances?
>>> Your Discourse-based forum seemed so much better than using Google
>>> groups, it would be very nice to be able to move.
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:34:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:

 It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't
 seem like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3
 every night.

 On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson 
 wrote:

> The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own
> servers?  That seems like a huge price to pay.
>


>>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Stefan Karpinski]

That assuages my concerns about maintenance to a large degree.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Malmaud  wrote:

> On the Discourse admin panel is a one-click button to upgrade to the
> latest and to roll back an upgrade, similar to Wordpress. Behind the
> scenes, the Discourse software is just a stateless docker image living on
> the server which is swapped out during an upgrade. See
> https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-update-discourse/10962.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Stefan Karpinski 
> wrote:
>
>> What about software updates, e.g. if there is a security patch or we need
>> new features?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Malmaud 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It varies depending on the CPU and RAM specs, but my instance is
>>> $10/month.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Scott Jones 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 How much are the DigitalOcean instances?
 Your Discourse-based forum seemed so much better than using Google
 groups, it would be very nice to be able to move.

 On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:34:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't
> seem like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3
> every night.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson 
> wrote:
>
>> The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own
>> servers?  That seems like a huge price to pay.
>>
>
>
>>>
>>
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: A potential new Discourse-based Julia forum

[Jonathan Malmaud]

It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't seem
like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3 every
night.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson 
wrote:

> The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own
> servers?  That seems like a huge price to pay.
>