discourse forum test

I've been messing around a little with discourse
<https://github.com/discourse/discourse> (the open source forum / mailing
list backend). Specifically, I've been wondering if it could provide a
replacement + upgrade for the mailing lists and nabble workflows as they
are now. I'm not really *proposing* a replacement, as much as simply
experimenting with that might look like. Feel free to mess around / create
an account / etc. Don't post anything important, since I may take this down.

The address is:
http://165.227.5.128/

A couple notes and thoughts:

- In your user Preferences -> Emails, you can enable mailing list mode to
make the entire forum behave like a traditional email list (you can reply
to posts by email, and create threads by sending to
sc-test-dev-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected] or sc-test-users-y6qSm6YX8/[email protected]).

- I think I've got both mailing lists mirroring as categories
<http://165.227.5.128/categories> on the forum. They're non-interactive
(you can't reply), but I'm curious how the mirroring turns out.

- The functionality around categories, user groups, notification and muting
seems very awesome, and could be a big benefit for the kinds of sprawling
discussions on sc-users/sc-dev

- Code highlighting appears to work fine. I don't think it recognizes
sclang specifically, but it does an okay job nonetheless.

- Categories for "users" and "developers" (or embedded users, tidal users,
etc etc) are more permeable than with two separate mailing lists. Threads
can be moved if another category is more appropriate, and searches can
easily cover both/all.

- You can create wiki-editable posts? Seems interesting?