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Interesting. I wonder how this will interact with StackOverflow. On one hand, it will tend to give large projects with established communities a centralized lo

Interesting. I wonder how this will interact with StackOverflow. 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?

seph-reed 5y ago
My gut reaction is that it looks a lot like centralization. And centralization almost always wins, and almost always for the worst reasons. 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.
jms55 5y ago
I think this is helpful because it keeps the "issues" tab cleaner. It's a place to discuss initial ideas without finding the maintainers on discord or something, to get feedback on whether the idea is worth implementing a PR for or not, etc.Similarly, it can be used for announcements about the project, polls to the community, etc.

seph-reed 5y ago

My gut reaction is that it looks a lot like centralization. And centralization almost always wins, and almost always for the worst reasons. 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.

jms55 5y ago

I think this is helpful because it keeps the "issues" tab cleaner. It's a place to discuss initial ideas without finding the maintainers on discord or something, to get feedback on whether the idea is worth implementing a PR for or not, etc.Similarly, it can be used for announcements about the project, polls to the community, etc.