GitHub Discussions is out of beta
theptip 2021-08-18 18:27:55 +0000 UTC [ - ]
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?
jms55 2021-08-18 21:24:07 +0000 UTC [ - ]
seph-reed 2021-08-18 18:51:38 +0000 UTC [ - ]
I can easily see peoples questions being buried/deleted/marked as "nofix" or other passive aggressive stuff like that.
I can easily see people who aren't on the project being less likely to have input than they would on SO.
I can also easily see a lot less discovery happening.
But all of these things that make a Q&A into yet another virtual fiefdom are exactly what will make it win out: it will be the developers own little fiefdom; they'll be there more.
ziml77 2021-08-18 18:39:00 +0000 UTC [ - ]
dessant 2021-08-18 18:24:27 +0000 UTC [ - ]
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.
cheshire137 2021-08-18 23:44:14 +0000 UTC [ - ]
munchkinship 2021-08-18 18:36:05 +0000 UTC [ - ]
kaycebasques 2021-08-18 19:50:19 +0000 UTC [ - ]
lights0123 2021-08-18 19:58:36 +0000 UTC [ - ]
Dowwie 2021-08-19 09:52:50 +0000 UTC [ - ]
ggoo 2021-08-18 18:05:30 +0000 UTC [ - ]
verdverm 2021-08-18 19:27:52 +0000 UTC [ - ]
meta: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/di...
systemvoltage 2021-08-18 18:01:36 +0000 UTC [ - ]
qmarchi 2021-08-18 18:09:58 +0000 UTC [ - ]
Similarly, with Github Discussions, each emoji has a distinct meaning and can convey the topic with many less pixels. Ex, I can use a as a replacement for "Feature request", as a replacement for "Bug/Issue", and for "Vulnerability".
Now if you start shoving them as the only way to communicate something, there's your problem.
frenchyatwork 2021-08-18 18:13:23 +0000 UTC [ - ]
leonsmith 2021-08-18 18:08:25 +0000 UTC [ - ]
saagarjha 2021-08-18 18:20:43 +0000 UTC [ - ]
frenchyatwork 2021-08-18 18:21:56 +0000 UTC [ - ]
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...
Dowwie 2021-08-19 09:59:14 +0000 UTC [ - ]
Imagine that this comment were my only contribution to this message thread. Imagine that ten other people commented the same because the community was very engaged. Now, imagine that pattern of commenting across every discussion.
Would an emoticon have been better?
jtl999 2021-08-18 19:12:18 +0000 UTC [ - ]
xeromal 2021-08-19 04:07:57 +0000 UTC [ - ]
bastardoperator 2021-08-18 18:48:38 +0000 UTC [ - ]
alberth 2021-08-18 18:03:07 +0000 UTC [ - ]
(Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)
cfeliped 2021-08-18 18:14:58 +0000 UTC [ - ]
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.
d0100 2021-08-18 18:55:21 +0000 UTC [ - ]
My Outlook sometimes flickers and instead of showing the email list, it shows the calendar. It only corrects itself after I mouse over
alberth 2021-08-18 18:51:07 +0000 UTC [ - ]
I do agree Teams is trying to be a jack of all trades master of none at the moment.
GSGBen 2021-08-18 21:09:38 +0000 UTC [ - ]
pineconewarrior 2021-08-18 18:49:42 +0000 UTC [ - ]
cfeliped 2021-08-18 21:58:30 +0000 UTC [ - ]
It used to be light years ahead of GitHub, but with actions, code spaces, private repos and Jira like stuff being released in GH that's not the case anymore.
IMO you can't go wrong with either GitLab or GitHub nowadays, both are great at what they do.
ksec 2021-08-18 21:06:09 +0000 UTC [ - ]
nojvek 2021-08-18 21:37:34 +0000 UTC [ - ]
joelbluminator 2021-08-19 05:55:38 +0000 UTC [ - ]
carlhjerpe 2021-08-18 23:41:40 +0000 UTC [ - ]
JamesSwift 2021-08-18 18:38:48 +0000 UTC [ - ]
joelbluminator 2021-08-18 19:05:36 +0000 UTC [ - ]
iamricks 2021-08-18 20:18:50 +0000 UTC [ - ]