Currently every new release thread (beta or otherwise) is immediately closed. I want to suggest keeping it open instead. With all the concerns around dropping community engagement, this seems like a quick win. It allows us to ask questions about new features, providing authors a chance to elaborate…

+1 and I have found it odd as well why these specific announcements are closed, but e.g., package announcements are not. It feels like the natural place to discuss the new release, given that that’s what the julia discourse is about: primarily human discussions and not data dumps (the ultra long ‘do…

We used to do this. You can see what release topics looked like before the change . Most responses were things that had been asked a thousand times (“how do I update”). We were finding bug reports were getting lost in the fray. Both things are best as dedicated topics. Yes, needing to start a to…

Release thread is not primarily intended to get support. It’s intended to discuss new features. For example, I saw in the release post that part of the development was supported by NASA. So I wanted to ask, is NASA using Julia? I’m not going to make a new post for that, but it’s a small enough quest…

[image] langestefan: Release thread is not primarily intended to get support. Precisely, but that was the end effect! We did aggressively split them, but it’s not always easy and always takes effort.

[image] langestefan: I’m not going to make a new post for that If you’re not doing it, someone else will :wink: I’m also curious about NASA and Julia, that sounds pretty cool. (For what) is NASA using Julia? Just my two cents on the topic of this thread though: I don’t think it’s a big restr…

[image] mbauman: Precisely, but that was the end effect! We did aggressively split them, but it’s not always easy and always takes effort. Still, I think the community engagement is worth it. And a little bit of occasional chaos is also not the end of the world. In fact, it’s a sign that we’r…

Personally, I very much like separate topics like (For what) is NASA using Julia? and Congrats for Julia 1.13! over having those responses hidden in the Announcements topic. Those messages aren’t automated! And I think that’s also part of it; Alex and Kristoffer would get inundated with notificati…

Nothing prevents you from making separate posts if you want to. The first of those posts followed directly from this post, and I have a strong hunch the second one did as well. [image] mbauman: Those messages aren’t automated! And I think that’s also part of it; Alex and Kristoffer would get in…

This could probably be addressed by just modifying automated messaging on release threads. Drop something like this at the bottom of each before the closure. Release threads on this forum are automatically closed so that discussions may be organized into more specific thread topics and so the rele…

Doesn’t hurt, but also doesn’t really address any of the points.

Suggestion: Keep release thread open

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langestefan September 11, 2026, 3:57pm 13

Yeah I don’t agree with that either. Especially this part makes no sense:

Since when do you get notifications from comments in an announcement thread?

edit: seems like only the top level would do that:

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Etiquette question on posting to Announcements Meta Discussion	11	1156	May 10, 2020
Purpose of the Announcements category Meta Discussion	3	1558	March 6, 2017
About the Announcements category Announcements	0	2987	November 15, 2016
Where should Julia feature requests go? Internals & Design github , discourse , feature-request	41	3552	March 18, 2024
Time limits for unfocused discourse threads? Meta Discussion	50	3843	February 5, 2024

Suggestion: Keep release thread open

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