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Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by cfeliped »

alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has.

GitHub is okay-ish.

But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto.

Outlook is also a joke.

Excel got better IMO.

No strong opinions for other apps.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by saagarjha »

leonsmith wrote: post #6
systemvoltage wrote: post #3

All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out:…

Strongly disagree and I've noticed this is a common trait amongst developers. I think it stems from the fact they are more comfortable on the CLI and are used to poor interfaces that they more easily justify a sub-par UX. Just look at how many HN "readers" are out there because this site subscribes to the same philosophy

Hacker News readers exist mostly because this site’s users tend to skew heavily towards people who would make such things.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by frenchyatwork »

leonsmith wrote: post #6
systemvoltage wrote: post #3

All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out:…

Strongly disagree and I've noticed this is a common trait amongst developers. I think it stems from the fact they are more comfortable on the CLI and are used to poor interfaces that they more easily justify a sub-par UX. Just look at how many HN "readers" are out there because this site subscribes to the same philosophy

Mild disagree. Emoji aren't that bad, and certainly have their uses; however, most of the time they look dramatically different than the surrounding text, and can be quite distracting. If they're trying to communicate something important, that works fine, but often the important stuff is buried in the text, and the emoji simply hurt the readability.

Also, there's an issue sometimes whereby people who have nothing worthwhile to say thing that adding a few emoji will now make their message worthwhile...

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by dessant »

Is there a way to learn that an issue has been converted to a discussion using the GitHub REST API?

I'm having problems with GitHub actions attempting to comment on converted issues that no longer accept comments, and the API does not seem to offer a way to identify that an issue has been converted to a discussion.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by theptip »

Interesting. I wonder how this will interact with StackOverflow.

On one hand, it will tend to give large projects with established communities a centralized location to handle questions which otherwise would be in a StackOverflow tag. Perhaps core developers would be interested in the community management features that Discussions offer, which would be harder to do in a world where questions get delegated to SO.

And potentially linking to the actual version/release that fixes a question would allow maintainers to whittle out the stale/deprecated answers that can bring down the average quality on SO.

On the other hand, it seems like small/medium size projects might suffer from a brain drain effect; if most React experts stop/reduce checking SO, and start/increase checking github.com/facebook/react/discussions, then there's probably less chance at the margin of a React expert seeing something tagged in SO as React,SmallReactLib.

How do folks think this is going to pan out?

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by JamesSwift »

alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

If it ain't broke why dedicate complicated time to fixing it?

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by ziml77 »

I noticed the beta version of this feature last week. I like that there's finally a place to ask questions about a project. To do it before you either had to abuse the issue tracker for it, join a Discord server linked in the README, or hope that someone who knows enough about the project is active on StackOverflow to answer you there. All 3 of those not too great options discouraged me from ever asking for help.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by bastardoperator »

systemvoltage wrote: post #3

All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out:…

I might argue there is no UI/UX being presented on sourcehut, just the presentation of data in different colors and some buttons. Maybe that's a feature, less is more, I can certainly appreciate it, but the GitHub UI is good and it's why nearly everyone is copying it, like the visibility feature on sr.st.

Re: GitHub Discussions is out of beta

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Post by pineconewarrior »

cfeliped wrote: post #11
alberth wrote: post #4

Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent. (Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)

VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has. GitHub is okay-ish. But Office 365? Teams is prob one of the worst apps I use nowadays. It consumes so much memory and cpu you would think it's actually mining crypto. Outlook is also a joke. Excel got better IMO. No strong opinions for other apps.

Curious - what is your preferred Git platform? We're about to migrate away from Bitbucket for... a lot of reasons.
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