This looks like the perfect mechanism to help us disambiguate code-related items from discussion items. We could say something like "Close this issue and link it to a new discussion"... Will give this a hard look when it's available on our org account.
GitHub Discussions Beta
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Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#12Sorely needed.
Tons of projects use issues for discussions/questions..or redirect to stackoverflow.
I wonder what will be the reduction in stackoverflow due to this ?
One request - have a global "discussions search" . Repos are interconnected to each other. I don't want to have to restrict my topic search to one repository's discussions
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#13Interesting. Will this be rolling out to other repositories at some point to beta-test?
I haven't seen any official announcements, and this was the only repo I found that had it enabled. Hopefully it rolls out to a wider audience soon!
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#14So, how do I join discussions beta?
AFAIK there's no way to join yet, and there's not even any official posts about it (that I can find).
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#15Phew. I've pretty much given up subscribing to issues on well-known projects because they so often get swamped by useless posts from people desperate to take their opinions for a walk (I pity the maintainers).
Hopefully this will reduce the issue spam problem.
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#16They just need to create an integrated gitter clone now, or maybe buy it from gitlab. Also this step pretty much kills discourse, doesn't it?
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#17Superb. Many open source projects still bounce you to Google Groups for discussion, which is archaic at this point. Even requires Google login just to read threads. Also it's often unclear what the policy is on raising questions in the issues tracker (smaller projects are usually fine with it, bigger projects get overwhelmed and don't want it). This will make it a much nicer separation for everyone and keep the issue…
idk, i really enjoy the 10+ second load time of Groups
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#18GitHub is slowly eating the surrounding cities. Github pages replaced our hosted sites. Projects replaced Trello/Waffle and friends. Actions replaced Travis/CircleCI. Sponsors is about to hit Patreon, and now Discussions aims for a piece of StackOverflow pie...
I think they are doing great in terms of performance and UI, it's hard to resist the convenience of having everything linked together in a coherent way. But this will probably backfire in the future :/
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#19I have no idea if my suggestion four years ago helped but am glad they finally implemented it :) https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/44
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#20GitHub is slowly eating the surrounding cities. Github pages replaced our hosted sites. Projects replaced Trello/Waffle and friends. Actions replaced Travis/CircleCI. Sponsors is about to hit Patreon, and now Discussions aims for a piece of StackOverflow pie... I think they are doing great in terms of performance and UI, it's hard to resist the convenience of having everything linked together in a coherent way. But t…
Why would it backfire? This centralized approach is the entire model for competitor Gitlab which has grown without issue so far.