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 eeZah7Ux » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 10:55 AM UTC

mabynogy wrote: post #6

Create a #tablesaw IRC channel and promote it with a kiwiirc link (webchat). freenode is the home of most software related channels but I prefer Rizon that I find more benevolent to newcomers. The channel I'm always on (as example of kiwiirc url): https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net?channels=#/g/dpt

The biggest communities are on Freenode and OFTC compared to stuff like slack & co.

Using FLOSS services that are federated/decentralized or at least run by no profits is necessary to keep a healthy community.

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

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Post by giancarlostoro » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC

sideproject wrote: post #10

omg... I released this a few months ago... https://www.producthunt.com/posts/elseif without much fanfare... and I quickly moved onto another project.

That looks really nice and cleaned up, is there a GitHub URL instead? That post leads to a URL that is down.

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

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Post by doshlord » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 11:42 AM UTC

I use https://gitter.im, I think it would be what you're looking for.

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

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Post by ketanhwr » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 11:50 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by gkya » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 11:52 AM UTC

Issues tagged as discussion would work, no? Many projects use the bug tracker for almost any discussion.

If you would want sth. like a mailing list, there's http://librelist.com/ .

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

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Post by thinkingemote » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

There used to be messaging within GitHub. You could simply message any other user. Now you have to look at someone's profile to hope to see if they have some form of contact there.

Im not sure why they removed it - they could have extended this into more discussion and community space. They say they are social, after all.

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

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Post by Mediumium » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:00 PM UTC

doshlord wrote: post #13

I use https://gitter.im , I think it would be what you're looking for.

Did you even read his post?

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

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Post by droidist2 » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:08 PM UTC

There's some new thing called Spectrum that looks really interesting.

https://spectrum.chat

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

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:08 PM UTC

IRC channels. Accept no substitutes.

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

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Post by entropie » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

thinkingemote wrote: post #16

There used to be messaging within GitHub. You could simply message any other user. Now you have to look at someone's profile to hope to see if they have some form of contact there. Im not sure why they removed it - they could have extended this into more discussion and community space. They say they are social, after all.

Keybase has a github integration via browser extension. Not sure how many people on github actually use keybase, but iam a fan.