Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by sanxiyn » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:57 PM UTC

iggg wrote: post #28

ketanhwr wrote: post #14

Use Reddit! Create a public/private subreddit (whatever suits you). It's a perfect place for discussions, and you can use IFTTT to provide you with webhooks.

If you want serious discussion, Reddit is the worst choice.

Reddit the software seems fine. /r/rust works well enough.

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by jimmies » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

anc84 wrote: post #22

ketanhwr wrote: post #14

Use Reddit! Create a public/private subreddit (whatever suits you). It's a perfect place for discussions, and you can use IFTTT to provide you with webhooks.

> It's a perfect place for discussions Reddit is terrible for discussions. It is perfect for current, forgotten-tomorrow consumation of things.

I used to have a community that was on facebook before. What a terrible mistake it was. Besides many bad things, it is what you described. There was no way to search for anything.

Reddit isn't perfect, but it's much less intrusive than facebook and people can search for past discussions. I know it is a low bar, but then I don't have to worry about spams, registrations, etc. Plus, if I don't have time to read/deal with it today, the discussion and the person isn't gone tomorrow which chat services tend to do.

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by ljw1001 » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #8

> I'm looking for an app like Discourse that is integrated with github. [...] The only 'must haves' are sign-on-with-github-account, and asynch communications. So, Discourse? It supports OAuth logins, what you need for GH.

I might go with discourse but I can’t afford the saas version ($100/mo) and was hoping to avoid having another thing to maintain.

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by matte_black » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

hoofhearted wrote: post #23

Trello. On another note, if i’ve ever seen a startup idea, this has to be one!

There is little money in this.

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by p33p » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

100% recommend discourse for this. It is what Hugo uses, and I find it very useful and well laid out.

Example: https://discourse.gohugo.io/

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by metachris » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

startupflix wrote: post #21

Most of the time through http://gitter.im

Gitter for dev communities, for broader communities a lot of projects also use Slack and Discord, perhaps Rocketchat.

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by Leo_Verto » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

ljw1001 wrote: post #33

detaro wrote: post #8

> I'm looking for an app like Discourse that is integrated with github. [...] The only 'must haves' are sign-on-with-github-account, and asynch communications. So, Discourse? It supports OAuth logins, what you need for GH.

I might go with discourse but I can’t afford the saas version ($100/mo) and was hoping to avoid having another thing to maintain.

You should be eligible for the 50% non-profit discount and could maybe even get it for free as an open source project: https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-host... (you don't exactly meet the threshold criteria yet but look at the top comment on that post).

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by edhelas » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

A little XMPP chatroom, there's plenty of clients out there and there is a nice native Github integration (to have the PR, commits… notifications) :)

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by avar » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Google Groups, no it doesn't have any deep integration with GitHub, but plenty of very active projects hosted on GitHub and elsewhere use it, and it's a great free forum provider with an easy web UI for those that want it, and E-Mail for power-users.

Keep in mind that most of the value people get out of such forums is being able to search possibly years old posts after the fact, and something like E-Mail is much more likely to be useful in that fashion than some glorified IRC client.

Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

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Post by lnkmails » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

We at StackStorm now do a combination of SAAS Discourse (https://forum.stackstorm.com/) and Slack (~1200 members). Discourse allows newcomers to search for relevant issues and allows us to do async support well. With 3000 members in slack, a paid version would be unimaginable in terms of cost. Plus, even if we pay (which we do for the team itself), the search is unbelievably bad in slack. Discourse seems to be doing well for us so far. We'll know more in a few months now. BTW we also allow people to file bug reports in github. It's a lot of tooling around customer engagement and support but people like that they can hop on slack, get pointed to forum if the question they ask cannot be answered by larger community. Core engineers answer discourse questions and point people to github issues if there is a legit issue. Sometimes people ask support questions straight on github.