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I really like the idea behind this feature. Being able to add a discussions 'forum' to my main project could be an excellent way to start building a community a

I really like the idea behind this feature. Being able to add a discussions 'forum' to my main project could be an excellent way to start building a community around the project. Looking at the Discussions issue page - https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/104 https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/104 - it looks like this will be delivered to projects not in the Beta testing group sometime before Christmas? Out of interest, are there any project admins around who can comment on how easy it is to moderate the Discussions threads? My one concern would be managing flame wars, and minimising inaccurate answers participants may offer each other.

Shank 6y ago
> Out of interest, are there any project admins around who can comment on how easy it is to moderate the Discussions threads? There's a soft NDA on people who are in the Discussions beta. It's also early enough that there's a direct pipeline to GitHub Staff on issues that are truly urgent, so it's really too early to say. The Issues moderation things like locking and org-level blocking definitely still exist and work in Discussions, though.
GordonS 6y ago
I'm looking forward to GitHub Discussions too. As well as helping foster community and contributers, it's also a clear separation from Issues, where I often see non-dev and peripheral questions being asked.