With the occurrence of more-or-less the same topic within three days ( here and here ), of course getting similar answers, I believe that it would be useful to have a subcategory of Usage for frequently occurring topics, where people can post some lite documentation on those topics (preferably in wiki…

[image] akis: eve that it would be useful to have a category for frequently occurring topics, where people can post some lite documentation on those topics (preferably in wiki form). It would be a quality time-saving read (easier than either a Git thread or going through the various occurrences …

[image] ChrisRackauckas: almost every issue new users have is in here: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/manual/performance-tips/ Do you have any statistics for that claim? Or is it just your personal experience when you were a new user yourself? Most issues are not performance relate…

It may be a good idea to have a FAQ category/subcategory, but there’s been a lot of activity and changes here to keep up with lately. Let’s rest on this and see how things feel in a while. Also, again , please watch the contentious tone that some of these interactions are taking on.

[image] StefanKarpinski: It may be a good idea to have a FAQ category/subcategory, but there’s been a lot of activity and changes here to keep up with lately. Let’s rest on this and see how things feel in a while. I merely made a proposal here, not a demand with a deadline. If the FAQ was the…

I am expecting a fair amount of initial question that are repeating themselves coming from new users. That was my original thinking behind the First Steps category. My main concern right now is moving julia-users, and then seeing how the usage of Discourse grows organically. A FAQ category might b…

@akis if you have issues with me please just PM me so it doesn’t fill the forum. That said, I prepared a line-by-line response giving you all of the sources you demanded . Let’s just bury the hatchet and be done with it. I hope this post also just serves as a good source of information to the communi…

[image] ChrisRackauckas: @akis if you have issues with me please just PM me so it doesn’t fill the forum. That said, I prepared a line-by-line response giving you all of the sources you demanded. Let’s just bury the hatchet and be done with it. Thanks for the offer, but I’m already done with …

For me a FAQ category would need to have the first post of the topic to be the explanation (e.g. wiki-style posts) and the follow up to be a discussion about the finer details. [image] akis: The tag solution cannot achieve the desired effect (for various reasons), but it’s a fair offer for demo…

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akis November 18, 2016, 8:02am 10

Demo entry posted here.

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