# Posting more updates in discourse

**URL:** <https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posting-more-updates-in-discourse/5975>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posting-more-updates-in-discourse/5975 "2018-10-11T01:56:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![andrewgelman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mc-stan.org/andrewgelman/32/1577_2.png) [@andrewgelman](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/andrewgelman)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posting-more-updates-in-discourse/5975/1 "2018-10-11T01:56:30Z")

</div>

Hi all. We were discussing how, in the old days of Stan, so many of our discussions about plans and projects were open to all on the stan-dev mailing list. Stan is now bigger, and different people and groups working on lots of Stan-related projects on algorithms, computing, the language, documentation, etc. So I just wanted to encourage everyone who’s working on Stan improvements or Stan ideas to post their plans and progress on Discourse, as a way of keeping our connections open as we grow.

I’ll try to do my best and do this too, so when we have research meetings with interesting Stan-related ideas, I will post short notes on Discourse.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![syclik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mc-stan.org/syclik/32/6_2.png) [@syclik](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/syclik)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posting-more-updates-in-discourse/5975/2 "2018-10-11T13:08:25Z")

</div>

I’ll second this. Our community of users and developers is one of the things that really makes Stan special.

We try hard to keep development discussions open. The old [stan-dev mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/stan-dev) is archived and open. We’ve now shifted to the #stan-dev topic here.

For the [@Stan\_Development\_Team](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/groups/Stan_Development_Team), if we need a different channel that’s focused development talk, we can set that up so that non-devs need approval to post (this was the permissions for the stan-dev mailing list). Otherwise, post on #stan-dev until it becomes an issue.