# The Julia Forem is live: https://forem.julialang.org

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** announcement\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055 "2022-06-01T13:03:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/1 "2022-06-01T13:03:13Z")

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Hey folks!

Some of you may recall that we have been experimenting with setting up a Julia [Forem](https://www.forem.com) since November of last year. Well today, I am super excited to share that the Julia Forem is live and ready: [https://forem.julialang.org](https://forem.julialang.org)🎊

You can read more about what the Julia Forem is, why you should use it, and the best practices here: [The Julia Forem: What it is, why we made one, and how to use it! - Julia Community 🟣](https://forem.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/the-julia-forem-what-it-is-why-we-made-one-and-how-to-use-it-52e5)

As a quick disclaimer because I am sure a few people are thinking this, Forem does not replace Discourse in any way. Discourse is a core part of the Julia Community for Technical Q/A. Forem is essentially a hosted blogging service with social features where you can get an awesome feed of high quality Julia content and have threaded discussions about it.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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**Author:** ![lawless-m](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lawless-m/32/30869_2.png) [@lawless-m](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lawless-m)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/2 "2022-06-01T13:38:36Z")

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**Author:** ![Ifihan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ifihan/32/22835_2.png) [@Ifihan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ifihan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/3 "2022-06-01T15:54:04Z")

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Lovely!

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**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/4 "2022-06-01T22:46:27Z")

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**Author:** ![NiclasMattsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/niclasmattsson/32/21988_2.png) [@NiclasMattsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NiclasMattsson)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/5 "2022-06-02T15:56:23Z")

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Sorry but I have to ask: is there any particular reason why they spell Forem that way? Is it an acronym, or maybe a reference to something I’m missing? The misspelling of “forum” is really triggering my OCD, which is especially concerning since I don’t actually have OCD.

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**Author:** ![simonbyrne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/simonbyrne/32/19_2.png) [@simonbyrne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simonbyrne)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/6 "2022-06-02T21:33:37Z")

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Perhaps it isn’t alluding to “forum”, but “forearm”? Or “4M” (like 3M post-it notes, but 1M better)? Or maybe “for 'em” (for them)?

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Soderlind](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paul_soderlind/32/1753_2.png) [@Paul\_Soderlind](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paul_Soderlind)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/7 "2022-06-02T21:46:30Z")

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My hypothesis is that all good and even half decent names were already taken (under copyright), so they had so settle for this…

My own suggestion would be Foo\_R.E.M

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**Author:** ![gustaphe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gustaphe/32/18174_2.png) [@gustaphe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gustaphe)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/8 "2022-06-03T03:33:16Z")

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It’s a proper noun. If they spelled it “forum” it would be impossible to find information about it. Discourse is bad enough and that’s not that common a word.

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**Author:** ![Elmo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/elmo/32/17979_2.png) [@Elmo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Elmo)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/9 "2022-06-04T19:46:07Z")

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It it possible to use math (Tex based ideally) syntax in forem? I tried $(ax^2 + bx + c = 0)$ but that didn’t work…

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**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/10 "2022-06-04T20:19:07Z")

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I would open an issue here: [GitHub - forem/forem: For empowering community 🌱](https://github.com/forem/forem) and ask. I think @simonbyrne was also interested to know this.

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**Author:** ![gustaphe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gustaphe/32/18174_2.png) [@gustaphe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gustaphe)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/11 "2022-06-04T20:25:41Z")

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Double backtick fence is common in markdown, you could try that.

```julia
``like this``

```

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**Author:** ![TheCedarPrince](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thecedarprince/32/17323_2.png) [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/12 "2022-06-04T20:27:06Z")

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I did some searching through Forem’s issues and found they support KaTeX with the guide they provided being here: [Editor Guide - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻](https://dev.to/p/editor_guide#supported-nonurl-embeds-list) for math notation.  
Hope that helps!

So in your case, I think this should work:

```julia
{% katex %}
ax^{2} + bx + c = 0
{% endkatex %}

```

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**Author:** ![Elmo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/elmo/32/17979_2.png) [@Elmo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Elmo)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/13 "2022-06-04T21:13:11Z")

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Awesome, thanks!

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**Author:** ![PietroMonticone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pietromonticone/32/44881_2.png) [@PietroMonticone](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PietroMonticone)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/14 "2022-06-05T12:54:01Z")

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My hypothesis: “ **FOR EM** powering communities”.

Weak evidence: Subtitle and description of the [Forem GitHub repository](https://github.com/forem/forem).

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**Author:** ![EvoArt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/evoart/32/25357_2.png) [@EvoArt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/EvoArt)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/15 "2022-06-07T05:25:57Z")

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For 'em?

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**Author:** ![BeastyBlacksmith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/beastyblacksmith/32/4741_2.png) [@BeastyBlacksmith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BeastyBlacksmith)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/16 "2022-06-07T07:43:32Z")

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I repost what @PetrKryslUCSD posted on slack: [classical latin - How does forem compare to essem? - Latin Language Stack Exchange](https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/1315/how-does-forem-compare-to-essem)

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**Author:** ![Arpad\_Horvath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/arpad_horvath/32/31169_2.png) [@Arpad\_Horvath](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Arpad_Horvath)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/17 "2022-06-08T08:05:18Z")

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Viva forem!  
For Forem’s issue tracker (I don’t know where it is). During logging in first time to forem I’ve inserted a “short” bio, longer than 200 characters. There wasn’t any error message, I just couldn’t go to the next page. I know the length limitation 'cause I was able to fill it in the settings, where it works properly.  
UPDATE: I’ve sent to the issue tracker.

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**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/18 "2022-06-08T13:08:34Z")

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The issue tracker is here: [GitHub - forem/forem: For empowering community 🌱](https://github.com/forem/forem)

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**Author:** ![VinodV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vinodv/32/32733_2.png) [@VinodV](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VinodV)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/19 "2022-06-13T01:44:55Z")

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How to do inline Katex in forem?

> Let {% katex %} A {% endkatex %} be a matrix is alloting a single line for ‘A’.  
> Like:  
> Let  
> A  
> be a matrix.

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**Author:** ![VinodV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vinodv/32/32733_2.png) [@VinodV](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VinodV)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-julia-forem-is-live-https-forem-julialang-org/82055/20 "2022-06-13T13:19:09Z")

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[quote=“VinodV, post:19, topic:82055”]  
{% katex inline %} A {% endkatex %}  
[/quote] will do the job

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