Aren't all issues discussions in essence? I think they'd have been better of just renaming issues and adding categories like "Issue", "Discussion" etc. Some projects already do this via labels.
GitHub Discussions Beta
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Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#92This links to Zeit, which seems like a kind of advert for their product?
How do we actually find out about GitHub Discussions and opting-into it? Or did GitHub only enrol one company into the beta?
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It’ll be very interesting to see how Google ranks the search results. I don’t know about others, but I almost never directly search SO, and almost always end up there through Google. If GitHub Discussions has the answer and Google directs me there, I will definitely not visit SO as often anymore.
Stackoverflow's search algorithm sucks compared to Google. I always use google and add the "site:stackoverflow.com" operator to find answers on SO.
To be fair pretty much everybody’s sucks compared to Google. I think your approach is almost universally sensible.
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#94One feature that is missing with this, and with every discussion forum since usenet , is a tree-view of a thread. On my Thunderbird I still follow some usenet forums and it is so much clearer and quicker with a tree view to see who has replied at what point in the thread. Poring through reams of quoted replies just to find where in the thread the answer comes doesn't cut it.
> One feature that is missing with this, and with every discussion forum since usenet , is a tree-view of a thread. Uhm... have you ever heard of a little-known site called "Hackernews"?
Or the even more niche 'Reddit'.
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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.
Yeah, and it's full of low quality drive-by responses by people using it to build their personal brand. Not quite on the same level as say Quora, SO seems to have better checks in place to keep things from degenerating that much. It's definitely present though, just less overt.
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Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#96Aren't all issues discussions in essence? I think they'd have been better of just renaming issues and adding categories like "Issue", "Discussion" etc. Some projects already do this via labels.
Not really. Issues are problems/bugs/etc that directly affect the product and are related to code. Discussions are for thing that are not related to code, like a user asking for some guidance regarding the code.
> Some projects already do this via labels.
That was an illogical hack do to limitations. Good on Github for identifying and fixing that.
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#97GitHub 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…
> Sponsors is about to hit Patreon At least for Patreon, they have a large enough user base, this won't hit them particularly hard.
I’d imagine open source is just a small slice of the pie compared to the youtube/twitch/gaming audiences. And I imagine any project earning thousands on Patreon isn’t going to attempt to migrate all of that just to keep it in github.
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#98Is there a real desire to separate these from issues? We use issues to have discussions and it’s never a situation in have been unhappy with.
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#99GitHub 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 don't want to make the same comment repeatedly, but anyone saying this aims at SO is fundamentally misunderstanding why SO is successful and what it offers. SO is literally anti-discussion, the whole point is it is about questions and answers, not discussion, because finding answers to questions on forums was a nightmare. No one wants to read through a thread of context to maybe find an answer. That isn't to say di…
It looks exactly like SO to me. There is a question, it is voted on, and there are answers, with one selected as the correct answer. There is no reading through the entire thread or anything like what you are suggesting.
Re: GitHub Discussions Beta
#100Is there a real desire to separate these from issues? We use issues to have discussions and it’s never a situation in have been unhappy with.
Issues are about bugs in the project. Discussion are about bugs in the person. It's true that it is not always evident which domain a bug exists and so some spill over is natural.