Most of the time through http://gitter.im
Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?
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#22Use 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.
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#23Trello.
On another note, if i’ve ever seen a startup idea, this has to be one!
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#24omg... 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.
A bigger project that I have been working for a long time is HelloBox
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#25What about Slack?
The free plan allows you only to keep the latest 10K messages. And it tends to be messy
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#26Is it not possible to just use GitHub? I mean, by creating a second repo which would be only for discussion, like tablesaw-support. I have no idea if is it again their ToS however.
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#27Issues 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/ .
I briefly considered Librelist, but their UI is a disaster.
To create or subscribe to list, you... send a message to the list. It's beyond me why would anyone want it like that.
I ended up using https://groups.io/ for my pet project.
Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?
#28Use 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.
Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?
#29Issues 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/ .
I think some people don’t feel like it’s appropriate for asking questions. Also, you end up with a ton of open issues if you want the topics to be easy to find
Re: Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?
#30This can entirely depend on the type of project and how many active contributors there are - if you have a lot of contributors then you may find more cross-user communications in which case gitter really does help (they answer each others' questions). If there are just a few people able to answer questions or just one (you), then using issues as Q&A would be good enough for now. The latter is quite common with apps r…
I see 19 contributors, which do look small.