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Discourage StackOverflow (#876)
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For any future reference, this PR provoked by deletion of my answer to [this SO question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72756919/robin-boundary-condition-for-the-system-of-coupled-pdes-fipy).
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guyer authored Jun 28, 2022
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you provide a `minimal reproducible example
<https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example>`__.

.. _DISCUSSIONS:

GitHub Discussions
==================

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Suitable for open-ended conversations, troubleshooting, showing off…

If a discussion highlights a bug or feature request, it’s easy for us to
migrate :ref:`DISCUSSIONS` to :ref:`ISSUES`.

.. _ISSUES:
migrate `GitHub Discussions`_ to `GitHub Issues`_.

GitHub Issues
=============
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Suitable for questions that (probably) have definitive answers ("How do
I...?"). It doesn’t work so well for back-and-forth conversations, which
are better suited to :ref:`DISCUSSIONS`.
are better suited to `GitHub Discussions`_. Further, it's
`bad at math <https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30559/latex-on-stack-overflow>`_
and they tend to delete answers that link to our existing
documentation, meaning that we'd need to expend considerable effort, using
an inferior tool, to duplicate things we've already written.

Seriously, use `GitHub Discussions`_.

Mailing List
============

.. attention::

The mailing list is deprecated. Please use :ref:`DISCUSSIONS`, instead.
The mailing list is deprecated. Please use `GitHub Discussions`_, instead.

You can sign up for the mailing list by sending a `subscription
email <mailto:fipy+subscribe@list.nist.gov>`__ to
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