Re: [gmx-users] Moving this mailing list to Discourse format

2016-05-01 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi, I agree with Hannes, these questions are not only pre-canned, but very limited in scope, pretty much listing a few handy features that happen to be advantages of discourse. Without any introductory/exploratory questions I'm not even sure it's easy to interpret correctly what people write; e.g.

Re: [gmx-users] Moving this mailing list to Discourse format

2016-04-21 Thread Hannes Loeffler
Hi Mark, many thanks. At the end it is really just a question if the user has flexibility over how to visualise the communications. I'm happy to hear that the old-fashioned email way would still have (some) support :-) I hope you get sufficient feedback and support from the community. Cheers,

Re: [gmx-users] Moving this mailing list to Discourse format

2016-04-21 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi Hannes, Yes, previous discussion has identified this as a likely key feature, and thanks for adding confirmation of that. Discourse can be integrated with functionality for replying to threads from email to suit people who want that kind of small change to their workflows; that will indeed suit

Re: [gmx-users] Moving this mailing list to Discourse format

2016-04-21 Thread Hannes Loeffler
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:11:42 + Mark Abraham wrote: > Hi people, > > As part of the new BioExcel project (http://bioexcel.eu/) that > supports biomolecular research with codes including GROMACS, we're > exploring migrating the gmx-users mailing list to the Discourse > format. You can see an e

[gmx-users] Moving this mailing list to Discourse format

2016-04-21 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi people, As part of the new BioExcel project (http://bioexcel.eu/) that supports biomolecular research with codes including GROMACS, we're exploring migrating the gmx-users mailing list to the Discourse format. You can see an example at http://try.discourse.org! This has a number of immediate ad