hijacked conversation about warning messages - starting new topic - starting point was @martinmodrak ’s comment here: [image] Text for warning message For easier maintainability, we might also want to replace the link with a link to Discourse.Discourse supports fixed routes, so we could have som…

I’ve been thinking about the best form of a FAQ quite a lot over the past months. I currently believe that the best way forward would be to move Discourse more towards being a one-stop shop whenever you need anything Stan, containing both discussions/help center and documentation/pointers to relevan…

[image] martinmodrak: I currently believe that the best way forward would be to move Discourse more towards being a one-stop shop whenever you need anything Stan, containing both discussions/help center and documentation/pointers to relevant, more detailed documentation. perhaps I’m misinterp…

Yeah, sorry, I could have been clearer. The current official documentation is great and should be kept and maintained. What I meant is that Discourse could (and I currently believe also should) eventually subsume the “less official” parts of the Docs - the field guides, and the user-oriented GitHu…

@martinmodrak I like this experiment with wiki-style posts. Do you have an idea for how to group these together and make them easy for people to find? (I guess other than the howto tag)

[image] jonah: I like this experiment with wiki-style posts. Do you have an idea for how to group these together and make them easy for people to find? (I guess other than the howto tag) Glad you like it. If we end up having a lot of those, they might earn their own category, but I think the …

[image] jonah: make them easy for people to find this is fundamentally an SEO issue - what we want, above all, is that when someone does a Google search on “Stan non-informative priors” or “RStan on Windows” or whatever, something useful on Discourse is among the top 3-5 suggestions. the pro…

Discourse - issue/question triage and need for a FAQ

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I attempted to draft how such a documentation wiki topic might look like: Divergent transitions - a primer happy to receive feedback.

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Discourse - issue/question triage and need for a FAQ

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