Moving the MPS Forum to the New JetBrains Platform Community Space

Discussions help communities evolve and thrive. The MPS community has been relying on the MPS Slack channel and the Zendesk community forum for many years. While Slack has served its purpose as a place for instantly exchanging advice and ideas, the forum has gradually fallen out of use. This is for good reason – the forum platform is inefficient for discussing software development topics. It lacks advanced code formatting capabilities, doesn’t support Markdown, which is widely used by software developers, and has an inconvenient search engine, among other issues.
We want to improve this situation and provide our community members with a better space to connect.

Introducing the new JetBrains Platform community space

We are happy to join other JetBrains tools in the new JetBrains Platform community space. A dedicated category has been created to host the MPS community’s conversations. Please bookmark this link and start using it for future technical discussions.
The new space is powered by the popular Discourse platform. Discourse is a modern and efficient open-source solution used by many software development communities.
Discourse is a perfect match for software development discussions. It supports Markdown, BBCode, and HTML for writing posts, has a powerful code snippet highlighting engine that covers over 190 languages, and includes a convenient search feature. Like our products, it’s designed with extensibility in mind, allowing us to tailor it to the community’s needs.
We believe that the new space will help our community evolve into a more connected group of people who want to learn from each other and share their knowledge and experiences.

How to get started

JetBrains Platform allows you to sign up through JetBrains Hub or your Google account. You can use your existing JetBrains Hub account or easily create one using one of the SSO providers.
Once you’ve signed in, check out the Welcome to JetBrains Platform! post for instructions on how to get started. As you become familiar with the interface, feel free to browse existing topics or create a new one in the MPS category.

What will happen to the current forum?

The Zendesk forum for MPS developers will be preserved in read-only mode, ensuring that the knowledge accumulated over the years remains accessible. We encourage all community members to join us in moving to the new and improved space. We are always open to further improvement, so please provide us with your feedback.
Let’s build a more united community together! See you on JetBrains platform!
Your JetBrains MPS team