# Meta Discussion

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## [Good examples of posts asking questions](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/good-examples-of-posts-asking-questions/39938)

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**Author:** [@heliosdrm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/heliosdrm)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/good-examples-of-posts-asking-questions/39938 "2020-05-22T07:12:33Z")

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Hi, there is advice provided to people coming for their first time, about how to make good questions, namely: I think that linking to good examples of such questions might also be inspiring, specially if they are comi…

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## [Hardware hackers domain?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hardware-hackers-domain/32839)

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**Author:** [@anon92994695](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon92994695)\
**Replies:** 45\
**Last updated:** [May 13, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hardware-hackers-domain/32839 "2020-05-13T21:18:07Z")

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Hey, I was wondering if we could get a hardware/hackers/makers domain? Interest in Julia has reached out to microcontrollers, 3-D printers, neural interfaces, IoT, tablets, scientific cameras, yadda yadda. Can us matte…

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## [Etiquette question on posting to Announcements](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/etiquette-question-on-posting-to-announcements/39193)

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**Author:** [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/etiquette-question-on-posting-to-announcements/39193 "2020-05-10T07:36:47Z")

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I’ve been posting announcements of new LG versions in the Community/Announcements forum for a while now, but I’ve received a comment from someone that it might not be appropriate to post things like patch release announc…

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## [The "first post" tips needs to be more visible and possibly emailed to new users](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-first-post-tips-needs-to-be-more-visible-and-possibly-emailed-to-new-users/38965)

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**Author:** [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-first-post-tips-needs-to-be-more-visible-and-possibly-emailed-to-new-users/38965 "2020-05-09T07:16:24Z")

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I can’t seem to find the pinned “here’s how to make a good post here” topic. I keep losing it and can’t remember what forum it’s in. In any case, we continue to have new users who make posts that are difficult to respond…

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## [Discourse dark theme kind of bad](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-dark-theme-kind-of-bad/38766)

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**Author:** [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 5, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-dark-theme-kind-of-bad/38766 "2020-05-05T07:47:48Z")

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I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but when I use the dark mode of discourse for Julia, the like button and some other things become basically invisible. Is there an easy way to fix this?

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## [How fast is pkg.julialang.org updated?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-fast-is-pkg-julialang-org-updated/35688)

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**Author:** [@francesco.alemanno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/francesco.alemanno)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-fast-is-pkg-julialang-org-updated/35688 "2020-05-02T15:40:16Z")

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Hi guys i really like the service offered, i was wondering what exactly triggers a package list update on pkg.julialang.org Since i made a small new package DefaultArrays, added it to the registry but after some days i…

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## [Subcategory of Tooling for Vim](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/subcategory-of-tooling-for-vim/37474)

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**Author:** [@jessebett](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jessebett)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/subcategory-of-tooling-for-vim/37474 "2020-04-12T23:22:13Z")

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Can we get a subcategory of Tooling for vim?

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## [StructArrays should be in Julia stdlib?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/structarrays-should-be-in-julia-stdlib/37012)

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**Author:** [@francesco.alemanno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/francesco.alemanno)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/structarrays-should-be-in-julia-stdlib/37012 "2020-04-05T13:50:15Z")

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this package offers a functionality which is so commonly desirable and so ‘natural’ and that in my humble opinion makes this package worthy of being in the StdLib, what do you guys think?

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## [Keyboard shortcuts for discourse site do nothing](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-for-discourse-site-do-nothing/36552)

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**Author:** [@devel-chm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/devel-chm)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-for-discourse-site-do-nothing/36552 "2020-03-26T16:58:16Z")

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How does one use the keyboard shortcuts listed in the “Keyboard Shortcuts” menu under the 3-line-menu located in the top left of the Julia Discourse display between the Search (magnifying glass) and the User widgets? Th…

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## [Site is not searchable from google](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/site-is-not-searchable-from-google/608)

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**Author:** [@TsurHerman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TsurHerman)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 28, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/site-is-not-searchable-from-google/608 "2016-11-28T23:48:10Z")

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For some reason julia discourse site is not searchable from google. Even if I search for an unique phrase that exist solely on this site … I do not see it in the list of results. That is a shame because most relevant …

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## [Discourse feature request: Autolink names of registered packages](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731)

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**Author:** [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-feature-request-autolink-names-of-registered-packages/35731 "2020-03-17T08:15:02Z")

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On github you can write #1234 and it will automatically turn into a link to the respective issue/PR. Wouldn’t it be great to have a similar feature here for registered packages? So if you write, say, BenchmarkTools.jl …

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## [Changing the Terms Of Service: User content license](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-the-terms-of-service-user-content-license/34979)

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**Author:** [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-the-terms-of-service-user-content-license/34979 "2020-03-06T01:48:19Z")

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Currently the Terms of Service state: 3. User Content License User contributions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Without limiting any of those representa…

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## [Can we mark some discussions on Julia Discourse as outdated in v. 1.x?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-mark-some-discussions-on-julia-discourse-as-outdated-in-v-1-x/35217)

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**Author:** [@KZiemian](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KZiemian)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-mark-some-discussions-on-julia-discourse-as-outdated-in-v-1-x/35217 "2020-03-05T15:57:43Z")

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I quite often search on Julia Discourse for solution to my problems and from time to time I’m stuck with problem, is solution given before August 2018 is still good? Since Julia 1.0 change a lot of things, some good solu…

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## [404 for https://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/404-for-https-julialang-org-downloads-platform-html/33263)

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**Author:** [@mark](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mark)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2020, 10:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/404-for-https-julialang-org-downloads-platform-html/33263 "2020-01-12T10:10:20Z")

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On the download page, Download Julia there’s a link to https://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html but this gives a 404.

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## [Difference in Discourse between New and Latest?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-in-discourse-between-new-and-latest/33146)

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**Author:** [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-in-discourse-between-new-and-latest/33146 "2020-01-09T10:52:46Z")

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Can’t get what’s the difference between the category new and the category latest…

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## [Slack: the chat tool we love to hate?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slack-the-chat-tool-we-love-to-hate/14021)

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**Author:** [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Replies:** 39\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slack-the-chat-tool-we-love-to-hate/14021 "2019-12-21T21:54:03Z")

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Every week or so we have a discussion somewhere on Slack in which a member complains about some aspect of the service (this week was the lack of message retention; last week was rendering; the week before was message ret…

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## [Weekly Julia challenge?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weekly-julia-challenge/32248)

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**Author:** [@wsphillips](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wsphillips)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 13, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weekly-julia-challenge/32248 "2019-12-13T20:24:22Z")

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Would people be up for a weekly computational challenge? I was thinking maybe to post a thread with problems from the archives of Project Euler and let people try to come up with the best (being either fastest or most “c…

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## [Break Usage into: Helpdesk, and General](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/break-usage-into-helpdesk-and-general/29448)

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**Author:** [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [December 9, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/break-usage-into-helpdesk-and-general/29448 "2019-12-09T19:41:57Z")

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We don’t really have a good channel for General ontopic julia discussion. Usage is mostly questions Community should be focused on community building type stuff Domains is not general, explictly so It would be good to…

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## [Help us spot plagiarizing spam prep](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-us-spot-plagiarizing-spam-prep/27896)

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**Author:** [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 23, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-us-spot-plagiarizing-spam-prep/27896 "2019-08-23T14:52:34Z")

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Some of you have already noticed some strange posts going on — a handful of new discourse accounts have created new threads that are exact copies of old posts and other text we have laying around on this site (like categ…

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## [HPC domain](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpc-domain/27359)

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**Author:** [@simonbyrne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simonbyrne)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/hpc-domain/27359 "2019-08-10T15:28:30Z")

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I know there is an existing distributed/parallel category, but I thought it might be a good idea to have a place to discuss more deployment issues on HPC machines (working with shared file systems, launching jobs, workin…

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## [Comment's date is different on the main page and in the thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comments-date-is-different-on-the-main-page-and-in-the-thread/27300)

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**Author:** [@cserteGT3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cserteGT3)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comments-date-is-different-on-the-main-page-and-in-the-thread/27300 "2019-08-09T09:06:41Z")

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Not sure if these things should be reported (or where to report them), I encountered this one: On the main page I see the following: If I click on it to see the thread the following: As you can see above it sugge…

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## [Add Probabilistic Programming Domain](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-probabilistic-programming-domain/26637)

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**Author:** [@trappmartin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/trappmartin)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/add-probabilistic-programming-domain/26637 "2019-07-23T06:33:14Z")

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Hi, as the Probabilistic Programming Languages (PPL) field in Julia seems to grow more and more, with lots of interesting packages and approaches it might be a good time to add a Probabilistic Programming Domain to disc…

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## [Statistics on Julia and its ecosystem](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/statistics-on-julia-and-its-ecosystem/26228)

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**Author:** [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/statistics-on-julia-and-its-ecosystem/26228 "2019-07-13T20:29:33Z")

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Hi all, I’m looking for some background statistics on Julia and its ecosystem for a talk I’m preparing. In particular, I’d be interested in the evolution of number of downloads and the amount of code sharing in the ecos…

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## [Discourse Activity Summary - Daily Summary irrespective of my visit](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-activity-summary-daily-summary-irrespective-of-my-visit/26322)

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**Author:** [@v-i-s-h](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/v-i-s-h)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-activity-summary-daily-summary-irrespective-of-my-visit/26322 "2019-07-13T14:41:45Z")

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How can I get a daily summary if discourse topics, irrespective of whether visit discourse or not? My main problem is I get an activity summary only if I don’t visit the discourse for last one day. But I visit some topi…

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## [Topic ressurection and Julia 1.0](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/topic-ressurection-and-julia-1-0/20009)

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**Author:** [@Seanny123](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Seanny123)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 23, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/topic-ressurection-and-julia-1-0/20009 "2019-01-23T23:24:21Z")

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Recently, I’ve been coming across various solved topics which predate Julia 1.0. Given I wish to see an updated answer, should I: Start a new topic referencing the old topic Reply to the original topic

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## [Useful Julia Modules?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/useful-julia-modules/17437)

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**Author:** [@jandehaan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jandehaan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/useful-julia-modules/17437 "2018-11-12T15:47:22Z")

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The Python wiki has a page listing useful Python modules. Does a similar listing exist for Julia modules?

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## [Should we have a Pkg-Announcements channel?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-have-a-pkg-announcements-channel/15168)

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**Author:** [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-have-a-pkg-announcements-channel/15168 "2019-03-21T17:02:54Z")

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Package announcements, kinda go all over the place. A lot in Community. which I think is better served to actually discuss the community, with things like meetups, collaborations and talking about how to communicate…

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## [Why are there so little categories and optional tags?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-there-so-little-categories-and-optional-tags/25090)

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**Author:** [@singularitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/singularitti)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-there-so-little-categories-and-optional-tags/25090 "2019-06-10T17:30:22Z")

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In this site, whenever I am looking for an optional tag to better fit my question into a subdomain, I can hardly find one specific enough. For example, I cannot find promotion or conversion, and for types, there are onl…

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## [How do I change my username?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-change-my-username/12593)

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**Author:** [@ashefa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ashefa)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-change-my-username/12593 "2018-07-23T16:17:50Z")

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I want to change my username (from a.shefaei to ashefa), but this option is disabled for me. Is there a way to do this?

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## [Maximum line length for code w/o scrollbars?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/maximum-line-length-for-code-w-o-scrollbars/24726)

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**Author:** [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 29, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/maximum-line-length-for-code-w-o-scrollbars/24726 "2019-05-29T16:11:38Z")

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I am wondering about the maximum line length I can use on this forum for displayed code that doesn’t result in a scrollbar. I found that 70 works OK, but it depends on the magnification. Is there a recommended value? T…

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