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The Julia Forem: What it is, why we made one, and how to use it!

Logan Kilpatrick on May 15, 2022

Welcome to the Julia Forem! If you are reading this, you are on our new Forem instance. You might be asking yourself a lot of questions like what i...
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Davi Sales Barreira

Veeery nice! There is a bunch of top-notch Julia articles scattered. Joining them in a single place is an awesome idea. I've felt the same way about Medium. Wrote some articles there, very large number of views. Now I intend to migrate to here :)

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Logan Kilpatrick

Glad to hear it! Can't wait to see your articles

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Shayan

cool! here we go πŸ₯³

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Ben Halpern

Congrats!!!

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Lewis

Cool

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Ashok Kumar

What does the unicorn icon do that is different from love icon? This is all I could find after internet search.

Hearts, unicorns, and bookmarks. Reactions are the medium for displaying appreciation for content. Bookmarks have the unique functionality of saving an article in the user's reading list.

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Logan Kilpatrick

Unicorns are the same as likes, just cooler! (They don't do anything special at the moment)

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William King

From what I can tell, this is Julia's answer to R-bloggers.

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Logan Kilpatrick

The Julia community has had: https://twitter.com/juliabloggers?s=21&t=O2sBan42ChXH3c9d3URVxA for 8 years now, Forem goes beyond just being a place to aggregate posts, it’s has tons of features built in to enable discussion and community which is lacking in other places.

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Hamish McLean

Is there an rss feed?

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Vinod V

Can I see no of views, sources etc?

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Logan Kilpatrick

You should be able to see the # of views for each post in the dashboard.

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tmigot

Interesting point! I will give it a try.

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