Personally, I find the following an improvement over google groups: - code blocks (copying and pasting code into the google groups interface always tends to look bad) - the ability to edit posts - the ability to move threads to different categories (i.e. posts to julia-dev which should have gone to julia-users, etc)
On Sunday, 6 November 2016 10:33:20 UTC, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > Le dimanche 06 novembre 2016 à 01:49 -0800, Andreas Lobinger a écrit : > > Hello colleague, > > > > > The Julia community has been growing rapidly over the last few > > > years and discussions are happening at many different places: there > > > are several Google Groups (julia-users, julia-dev, ...), IRC, > > > Gitter, and a few other places. Sometimes packages or organisations > > > also have their own forums and chat rooms. > > > > > > In the past, Discourse has been brought up as an alternative > > > platform that we could use instead of Google Groups and that would > > > allow us to invite the entire Julia community into one space. > > > > > > > What problem with the julia-users mailing-list and the google groups > > web interface is solved by using discourse? > You can have a look at the previous thread about this: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/4oDqW-QxyVA/lw71uqNGBQAJ > > I also encourage you to give a try to Discourse (this can be done > without even creating an account on their test instance). > > > Why do you think (can you prove?) more centralisation will happen > > with discourse? > Centralization will be made possible by allowing for sub-forums > dedicated to each topic (stats, optimization, data...) inside Discourse > itself, instead of creating totally separate mailing lists as is > currently done. Of course people will still be free to use something > else, but that's quite unlikely. > > > > We would like to solicit feedback from the broader Julia community > > > about moving julia-users to Discourse as well, and potentially > > > other mailing lists like julia-stats. > > > > > > > Please define 'We'. > "We" meant "Julia core developers". > > > > If you have feedback or comments, please post them > > > at http://discourse.julialang.org/t/migration-of-google-groups-to- > > > discourse or in this thread. > > > > > > > In some parts of the world, asking for feedback on a topic via a > > different medium is seen as unfriendly act ... but still there is > > this thread. > The idea was that we would like to see how well it works by having > people use Discourse for this discussion. But as you noted there's this > thread for people who don't want to to that. > > > Regards > > > Wishing a happy day, > > Andreas > On Sunday, 6 November 2016 10:33:20 UTC, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > Le dimanche 06 novembre 2016 à 01:49 -0800, Andreas Lobinger a écrit : > > Hello colleague, > > > > > The Julia community has been growing rapidly over the last few > > > years and discussions are happening at many different places: there > > > are several Google Groups (julia-users, julia-dev, ...), IRC, > > > Gitter, and a few other places. Sometimes packages or organisations > > > also have their own forums and chat rooms. > > > > > > In the past, Discourse has been brought up as an alternative > > > platform that we could use instead of Google Groups and that would > > > allow us to invite the entire Julia community into one space. > > > > > > > What problem with the julia-users mailing-list and the google groups > > web interface is solved by using discourse? > You can have a look at the previous thread about this: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/4oDqW-QxyVA/lw71uqNGBQAJ > > I also encourage you to give a try to Discourse (this can be done > without even creating an account on their test instance). > > > Why do you think (can you prove?) more centralisation will happen > > with discourse? > Centralization will be made possible by allowing for sub-forums > dedicated to each topic (stats, optimization, data...) inside Discourse > itself, instead of creating totally separate mailing lists as is > currently done. Of course people will still be free to use something > else, but that's quite unlikely. > > > > We would like to solicit feedback from the broader Julia community > > > about moving julia-users to Discourse as well, and potentially > > > other mailing lists like julia-stats. > > > > > > > Please define 'We'. > "We" meant "Julia core developers". > > > > If you have feedback or comments, please post them > > > at http://discourse.julialang.org/t/migration-of-google-groups-to- > > > discourse or in this thread. > > > > > > > In some parts of the world, asking for feedback on a topic via a > > different medium is seen as unfriendly act ... but still there is > > this thread. > The idea was that we would like to see how well it works by having > people use Discourse for this discussion. But as you noted there's this > thread for people who don't want to to that. > > > Regards > > > Wishing a happy day, > > Andreas >
