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by hasenj 3773 days ago
Why doesn't github have a proper discussion forum per project? I don't consider the "issues" a proper discussion forum.

That seems to me like it would be much more valuable, specially for community projects.
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derefr 3773 days ago
Presumably because discussion forums aren't anyone at Github's expertise. They're a whole product of their own.
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hasenj 3773 days ago
This argument could be made against wikis and issues and static websites (and file uploads).

I think a discussion forum is integral to any open source project. People traditionally use mailing lists, which have an awful UX in my opinion. A moderately better alternative is google groups, which is basically just a nicer UI for a mailing list.

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