Published pages still link to the retired discourse.quantecon.org

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4/5
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35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
github
Domain
content, documentation

Research direction

Read the retirement reference in QuantEcon/website#157 and the live platform discussion in QuantEcon/meta#153, then inspect the three troubleshooting pages, cheatsheets.quantecon.org navigation, and QuantEcon.py contributing documentation named here. Confirm every published reference to discourse.quantecon.org and record the approved destination or removal for each; done means no affected page sends readers to the retired domain.

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Description

discourse.quantecon.org was retired in March 2025 (QuantEcon/website#157) and the subdomain no longer resolves — dig returns no record at all. Several published pages still send readers there.

Still linking to the dead forum

Page Where
jax.quantecon.org/troubleshooting.html lecture-jax
julia.quantecon.org/troubleshooting.html lecture-julia.myst
datascience.quantecon.org/introduction/troubleshooting.html lecture-datascience.myst
cheatsheets.quantecon.org site navigation
quanteconpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html QuantEcon.py

python.quantecon.org and intro.quantecon.org were cleaned at the time; the rest were missed.

The troubleshooting pages are the ones worth fixing first. A reader who has hit a problem is told to ask on a forum, follows the link, and gets a domain that does not exist — which is a worse outcome than not offering the route at all.

What to point at instead

That needs a decision rather than a mechanical substitution, because there is currently no replacement surface. The closure announcement said we would be "evaluating new platforms and opportunities", and QuantEcon/meta#153 (Ghost) is the live thread there. In the meantime the honest options are to point readers at the relevant repository's issue tracker, or simply to remove the sentence.

Worth noting alongside this: GitHub Discussions is disabled on every public QuantEcon repository except meta — verified has_discussions: false on lecture-python.myst, lecture-python-intro, lecture-jax, QuantEcon.py, website and community-library. It is free, already owned, and would give the troubleshooting pages somewhere to point. Enabling it is a separate decision from fixing the dead links, but the two are worth considering together.

Surfaced while evaluating #65.

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