NEW MTEX FORUM

[Ralf Hielscher]

Dear MTEX community,

unfortunately Google is spending less and less love into its forum platform. With the "new groups" they cut even more features that are important to out community as e.g. syntax highlighting.

On the other hand Github where the MTEX development  is hosted anyway has recently set up a very modern discussion platform.

Judging the changes going on at google groups and Github we decided to move the entire forum to https://github.com/mtex-toolbox/mtex/discussions

This has the following advantages for you

• More fine control over notification you get send. You can either click the watch button to kept informed about any discussion, or you can subscribe to specific topics. For instance, we set up a topic that informs about new releases and workshops and a topic that allows to vote for new features.
• Real syntax highlighting. The following syntax will allow you to view code as it would look within Matlab
  ```matlab
  ebsd = EBSD.load('fileName.txt')
  plot(ebsd,ebsd.orientations)
  ```
• You can use full Markdown for styling your posts. You can easily link to other people, issues and MTEX function.

We understand that moving such a large community is some risk. However, we believe that our new home is much nicer, has a much better perspective and will serve us well for many years.

You are welcome to comment an this discussion below. We plan to keep this forum open for reading but will close it down for writing within a month.

All the best,

Your MTEX team.