I know what you mean, but given great search, this is not going to be massive difference. But the ability to link to source code lines/issues/pull-requests as p

I know what you mean, but given great search, this is not going to be massive difference. But the ability to link to source code lines/issues/pull-requests as part of the discussion is going to be good. Here's the thing - I would bet there's an overwhelming majority of users, who "discuss" and ask on GitHub issues anyway. And half the job of repo owners is to close such issues. So it's not like the natural behaviour of users is to go to stackoverflow for questions/discussions anyway. This just channels existing behaviour