- Selectively subscribe to certain topics/categories of discussion and not
others.
- Selectively see threads that reach certain quality/interest thresholds.
- Take links directly from where one reads messages
(I really dislike the Google groups interface, so I use Gmail for
reading messages, but then getting a link to a post is a real pain; the
Discourse interface is much better).
- Real tools for moderation, management and administration.
- Active, open development
Google Groups is not only proprietary, but it's also effectively
abandonware.
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Simon Byrne <simonby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
