I wanted to discuss what categories we should have here. Of course, this can evolve over time. As a basis for comparison, Rust has two different Discourse forums: https://users.rust-lang.org/ help announcements community meta tutorials https://internals.rust-lang.org/ libs language design an…

I like the general structure and agree that we should add an announcements channel. I have one question: How should one deal with smaller topical groups? There is a small JuliaGeo community with a github organization maintaining a few Geoscience related packages and a low-traffic mailing list which…

I think a Geo subcategory would be good. Basically anything that could have its own mailing list seems like a candidate for a domain subcategory.

I wish there was a way to delegate administration of subcategories, but there doesn’t seem to be. As more people use this system, they’ll automatically gain trust and moderation capabilities though, so I think this will start to resolve itself.

I’m not sure if you are looking for suggestions in this thread, but maybe a separate “Announcement” forum where people can follow package tagging and news.

Ok, so once a Geo subcategory is created we would transition there, since there were no complaints on the julia-geo mailing list.

What’s wrong with low traffic categories, as long as they do have some? [image] ChrisRackauckas: if domains are split too much then you will have some domains with very few posts which will discourage their use Suppose that in the future a not-yet-existing subcategory acquires traffic within…

[image] akis: Suppose that in the future a not-yet-existing subcategory acquires traffic withing an existing big category. How do we expect to ever make the split reasonable, if discouragement is our criterion? Cause the old big category will still have more traffic than any new one (as is the c…

Following up on the Audio category: was that really necessary? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/audio|sort:relevance There have been 33 posts in Julia-users with the word “audio” in its whole run. The majority of that is picking up posts which just have the word audio in it. …

I think the solution that is going to work best for now is that we don’t over design what categories we have, but rather use tags to classify topics. If a certain domain/topic arises often enough we then create a category for those posts. Also if a community wants to move to discourse e.g. julia-st…

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Geo domain created: Geo - JuliaLang. Please edit the About Geo page as appropriate – I’ve made it a wiki, which should let people edit it as I understand things, but if that doesn’t work, let me know.

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