Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

#1

Post by steveluo9 » Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 10:59 AM UTC

Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects
gitq.com

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by steveluo9 » Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 11:17 AM UTC

Don't know how to change the url in HN, but the following url is a community for gitq.com itself: https://gitq.com/GitQLab/gitq.com

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by robinshen » Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 11:57 AM UTC

I often end up asking questions in GitHub issues, not a good place for discussions though. Finally someone offered this service. Nice!

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by steveluo9 » Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 12:11 PM UTC

robinshen wrote: post #3

I often end up asking questions in GitHub issues, not a good place for discussions though. Finally someone offered this service. Nice!

That's why we build this service and hope that we can provide the best discussion service for the open source communities.

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by mbrain » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 8:04 AM UTC

Interesting! I built Gitcussion for the exact same reason few years ago. https://gitcussion.com/

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by africajam » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 4:37 PM UTC

This is awesome! I don't understand why this hasn't got more upvotes. I've just created a forum for my project:

https://gitq.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

Now time to get people talking about it ;)

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by type0 » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 10:53 AM UTC

What relation does it have to Git? Have you read their mailing list about the Git Trademark? https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by fiatjaf » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 12:15 PM UTC

type0 wrote: post #7

What relation does it have to Git? Have you read their mailing list about the Git Trademark? https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

Say that to Gitter.

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by fiatjaf » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 12:18 PM UTC

This is nice. I want something like this, and I've seem a lot of project maintainers ask for it also, so it's strange it hasn't got more upvotes.

In a lot of cases people want "Gitter for forums", but they end up creating mailing lists. This thing solves that problem.

There's also https://spectrum.chat/, a forum-as-a-service tool which I find great, although it is totally unrelated to GitHub.

Re: Show HN: Forum as a service, for GitHub projects

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Post by type0 » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 8:04 PM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #8

type0 wrote: post #7

What relation does it have to Git? Have you read their mailing list about the Git Trademark? https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

Say that to Gitter.

No need to do that. Gitter started the same year (2014) but before the Git trademark were granted, so this does not apply.

Edit: also Mr and Mrs Git don't need to change their name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtyO4tmpPdk