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Ask HN: Nowadays, is forum service useless for GitHub?

2 points| steveluo9 | 8 years ago

I built a forum service for GitHub (https://gitq.com) and launched last week, but have received few feedback so far.

So I'm wondering is forum service useless for GitHub? Do people prefer to use chat service like slack/gitter rather than forum?

Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.

3 comments

jim_d|8 years ago

my 2 cents.

github issues seems to be where most interaction with the community happens. It might be a bit of abuse for their intended purposes but every time I've had a question a github issue usually gets an answer pretty quickly.

What use cases does the forum service fullfil that github issues isn't a 'good enough' solution for?

steveluo9|8 years ago

I built this because I saw a lot of projects using mailing list as their discussion board, and a lot of projects set up forums themselves, including a lot of famous projects like Atom, React, Vue, even GitHub itself set up a discourse as their forum.

We can't stop a user to use GitHub issues to ask questions, or discuss features, but to me, it is not a good place. So I hope I can build a discussion service for those projects to set up their forum easier when they don't want to use issues as the alternative. But the fact is, may be, just like you said, issues is 'good enough'?