Discussion categories

[ChrisRackauckas]

@akis

A big community is very hard to switch and a bunch of low traffic forums cannot trick anyone into believing that the overall community is inactive.

I am pretty sure that a pinned post and mod intervention can easily make a big community switch to a new active forum in 14 days. Just a gut feeling.

@akis

low traffic forums cannot trick anyone into believing that the overall community is inactive

I have had people tell me that, by looking at the inactive Julia-jobs, there must be no opportunities in Julia right now (which is completely false, just develop in Julia for a bit and the emails will start rolling in). So… it can?

@akis

Moreover, what most people miss is that Discourse is also a wiki. Can you imagine a wiki without specialized categories? Or should we defeat the purpose of wikis too? I’m afraid that most people jumped into the new platform thinking of it as just a little better than google-groups, without reading the features of the new platform nor the full reasoning for and vision behind the migration.

I missed that because I don’t care about wikis most of the time. I just want LaTeX/KaTeX. Literally, whatever forum has LaTeX is the best one. At least we now have pretty-looking code.