# Improving Discourse interface

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improving-discourse-interface/3559>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [May 6, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improving-discourse-interface/3559 "2017-05-06T16:25:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![wavexx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/wavexx/32/2197_2.png) [@wavexx](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wavexx)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/improving-discourse-interface/3559/4 "2017-05-06T17:11:46Z")

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Done. If there is something I could put as a priority on, is to make the mailing list interface work decently:

- There is a post: [https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-as-a-mailing-list](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discourse-as-a-mailing-list) about using discourse as a mailing list, but this text should be in the FAQ page really.
- I shouldn’t have to post through the web site and get approval in order to be able to use the mailing list mode. I had to subscribe already.
- Quoted text in the text-part of the mailing list is not quoted with ‘\>’. It’s just the same markdown you see the source text. This breaks mail reply (turns out that editing replied chunks in the web interface is not any better).

I really wonder how well this would work in practice, discourse doesn’t really seem to be geared towards a mail-only interface.

Some other issues in the web UI:

- “Merit badges” are really off-putting for me.
- When posting a new thread, could we use a full-page editor? I’m writing a reasoned issue that takes multiple paragraps to explain, and I’m getting less than 1/3 of the screen space to do it. The preview on the right is nice, but stuff keeps popping up in it. It’s also generating a lot of traffic in the background somehow, because it’s lagging a lot when I’m writing from a slow connection (background save and searching for related posts, I guess).

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