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Interesting. Will this be rolling out to other repositories at some point to beta-test?
Yep! We're going to try it out in a few interested communities, and if people like it, we'll make it available GitHub-wide. It's early, though, and we want a chance to learn what works and iterate on a smaller scale before introducing it to everyone.
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StackOverflow actively discourages "discussion"—it is for questions and answers. If anything, I'd say it overlaps more with issues than this.
I don't know what stackoverflow discourages, but tons of projects explicitly mention "ask questions on stackoverflow with this hashtag" Having a place to do this right next to the source code would be welcome (as long as there is global search as well) E.g. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/t... Stack Overflow Someone else from the community may have already asked a similar question or may be…
GitHub 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.
So, how do I join discussions beta?
Oh love it! I’m always unsure if it’s ok to ask a question via issues.
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I don't know what stackoverflow discourages, but tons of projects explicitly mention "ask questions on stackoverflow with this hashtag" Having a place to do this right next to the source code would be welcome (as long as there is global search as well) E.g. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/t... Stack Overflow Someone else from the community may have already asked a similar question or may be…
In terms of displaying content, asking questions is a very different thing to discussion. If you've ever had to trawl through forum threads trying to find answers, it is a nightmare. StackOverflow is much more heavily moderated and curated to keep the answers from being buried. In general, you aren't going to be able to discuss something on SO, and people aren't going to find answers in discussion boards because they…
Here's the thing - I would bet there's an overwhelming majority of users, who "discuss" and ask on GitHub issues anyway. And half the job of repo owners is to close such issues.
So it's not like the natural behaviour of users is to go to stackoverflow for questions/discussions anyway. This just channels existing behaviour
(and not just a team integration please... :D)
GitHub 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…
I can't wait for stack overflow to fall out of favor. There's few places as beginner-hostile as SO. If you get enough points, you get the close button, which effectively is telling newcomers to RTFM in nicer words.
They 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?
GitHub bought Spectrum (spectrum.chat) in 2018: https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-g... But I would caution against integrating too many tools into GitHub. As a user, I like that GitHub errors on the side of saying no. You don't want to end up with a bloated product.
Friendly aside: the expression is "err(s) on the side of..."
Interesting. Will this be rolling out to other repositories at some point to beta-test?
Yep! We're going to try it out in a few interested communities, and if people like it, we'll make it available GitHub-wide. It's early, though, and we want a chance to learn what works and iterate on a smaller scale before introducing it to everyone.