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Forum downtime announcement (again!) :(
Hey there! Sorry for the downtime (again). This was not intended, and was caused by everyone being away on holiday and such I didn’t notice it soon enough unfortunately. As soon as I get the time I’m...
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Wanting a night mode/Black background
Usually I visit this forum at night. Most of the sites (twitter, github) I visited at the same time has awesome night mode, but this site hasn’t. However I am using stylus extension for fixing this...
View ArticleDiscourse Upgrade
FYI: I upgraded Discourse on the forum today. If anything seems broken let us know in this thread. 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticleForum Is Back Up
If you are reading this the forum is back up. I am sorry for the extended downtime. Given Gophercon, travel and the like most of the people who look after the forum, on a volunteer basis, were not...
View ArticleForum upgraded today ! :-)
Just upgraded the forum to the latest shiniest version. Let us know if anything is weird or has broken this time. 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic
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Conway's Game of Life - memory error
Hi, I wanted to see what “go” is all about and when playing with the “Try Go” scripts I noticed that the “Conway’s Game of Life” does not work as it should when run as is. I tried on Chrome with two...
View ArticleWhere is the interactive advanced user tutorial?
This badge mentions an advanced user tutorial but I haven’t found it. Where is it? Licensed This badge is granted upon successful completion of the interactive advanced user tutorial. You’ve mastered...
View ArticleWhat to do with spam?
It’s not very common with spam here but it was one message a few moments ago. I just changed the title to begin with “spam” but I couldn’t find any other way to mark it as spam. Am I missing...
View ArticleHow to post code on this forum
Hi Then posting code on this forum it is very good to do it in one of these ways: As a link till Go Playground https://play.golang.org Type in your code or paste it. Press the Format button to get it...
View ArticleConstant_declarations spec
Hello, https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constant_declarations According to the grammar defined in the link above, the statement ‘const toto’ could compile (or in other words, is idiomatic) . This is wrong...
View ArticleLine numbers in code listings
Hi Would it be possible to turn on linenumbers on code between triple backticks in this forum? With kind regards, Johan 4 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleUsers without avatar
Recently it seems as if there are a lot of new users without an avatar. First I thought it was just a plain white picture, but as this happens more and more often, and also sometimes those users get...
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There should be a dark theme available as well
I think the forum engine is theme capable. Is there any dark theme available? Related: Wanting a night mode/Black background 6 posts - 4 participants Read full topic
View ArticleProblem with Spanish Tour of Go
In the Step 45 you are required to write a piece of code to resolve an exercise, but there is one problem with the library that it’s already imported, instead of being “tour/wc” is...
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PSA Make it easier to help you
This public service announcement (PSA) outlines some useful practices when asking for help. Many members are enthusiastic about helping Gophers, both beginner and experienced. Following these points...
View ArticleHow do I delete old post in Releases category?
The editor is amazing and I love the emoji selection box with search field! I like that updating an existing post doesn’t move the post to the top, so we can make corrections without annoying others....
View ArticleForum Discourse Upgrade on 2/18
We’ll be upgrading the Discourse install on 2/18, starting around 10:00 AM Pacific/US. We’re not sure how long it’s going to take. Sometimes it’s fairly easy and straight forward. Sometimes it’s not....
View ArticleHow do we handle posts that basically are ads?
Is there any policy how we handle posts that basically are ads? I refer to the post [Ad] Golang Webinar - Free for which I have added “[Ad]” to the subject. What do you think? 4 posts - 2 participants...
View ArticleDelete my account
How can i delete my account? 6 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
View ArticleSetting up questions on GitHub
There was conversation at one point about adding a “Question” label on Github issues (although I can’t find the issue discussing this). However, GitHub very recently added a new feature, Discussions....
View ArticleSite Maintenance on 9/10 through 9/12
I’ll be performing site maintenance over the next few days (9/10, 9/11, & 9/12). The site will be randomly unavailable on those days while I do a bunch of upgrades and tweaks to discourse, the...
View ArticleGo Fibonacci is Imperative and here's a functional approach
The imperative code has mutation, side effects, and is overall not very efficient IMO. Here’s the efficient way: go package main import "fmt" func fib(n int) int { [tab]if n == 0 { [tab][tab]return 0...
View ArticleNewer Discourse with dark mode
Hi forum, Is it possible to update the site to a latest Discourse with dark mode? Thanks 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleFeedback my working on a Go package for X
Hi, I’m working on a Go package for X. Can anyone review my code? package main import ( "database/sql" "fmt" "log" _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql" ) func main() { db, err := sql.Open("mysql",...
View ArticleThe "About the Releases category" page needs to be updated
The About the Releases category page offers some very useful information, however a couple of the links under the “Other resources” section of that page have become problematic. Note the following:...
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