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It's taken me a bit longer than I expected, but here it is: the new Pythonista forum. I've been unhappy with the old one for several reasons – most importantly, spam was becoming quite a nuisance.

While the old forum was a standard Vanilla installation (a PHP-based open source web app), I've written the new one from scratch in Python (obviously), running on App Engine. While it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, it does have the features I care about, and I'm hoping that it'll be a lot less attractive for spam bots and the like. But if spam does become a problem again, I think that I'll be able to respond a lot better.

I have imported all the discussions from the old forum, and if you've had an account there (and posted at least once), you should be able to login with the same username and password here.

One important change is that posts are now formatted as Markdown, instead of HTML, and it's also possible to syntax-highlight Python (or other) code, e.g. this:

```python
import random
print 'hello'
print random.randint(42)
```

will turn into this:

import random
print 'hello'
print random.randint(42)

As of now, there are no email notifications, but you can subscribe to the forum (or any category) with RSS feeds.

I hope you enjoy the changes and the forum will become a welcoming place for all Pythonista users again.

Cheers,

--Ole

Amazing. Great work, Ole. Congratulations!

Hi Ole, The new forum looks beautiful!! Thanks much.

I've found a couple of bugs with the signup process, so if you had trouble creating an account, please try again now. The captcha verification was broken (and didn't even show up in Chrome).

Also, category RSS feeds didn't work properly (resulted in a server error), this should also be fixed. If you notice any other things that don't work right, please let me know.

The triple quotes python trick requires that you have a blank line before the ```python line.

import random
print 'hello'
print random.randint(42)

@ccc Good point, on a Mac or PC, you can also use the Markdown toolbar, which includes a Python code button (the Python logo)

I've just added the possibility to subscribe to individual discussions via RSS feeds (there's a Comment Feed link at the top of each discussion).

Nice! I like the new forum! :)

You remade the forums just for me to come back? :P

It looks very nice and I sure hope the spammers stay away. Granted, shiny trinkets attracts thieves.

Well, got to go back to recreating all my programs. Sort of failed when I backed them up...

Cubbarooney

P.S. I really like the switch to markdown. Keeps things "fluid", so to speak.

Searching the forum returns a lot of duplicate hits. For instance, if I search on all article pertaining to iPython (http://omz-forums.appspot.com/search?forum=pythonista&q=ipython), I get 4 pointers to each article.

Searching the forum returns only one page of hits. For instance, if I search for all articles pertaining to our fearless leader (http://omz-forums.appspot.com/search?forum=pythonista&q=omz), I get only a single page of hits.

I had an account "pdxmisfit" but I forgot my password, and I could never get it to send me a recovery email.

I wanted to continue my comments on the puhLEEEEEEEEESE-make-a-Pythonista-for-Python-3 thread. :)