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> Once a project is big enough to attract all the low quality users, the same question/problem will be asked/reported over and over again. That's true for Disc
by inetknght 3y ago
> Once a project is big enough to attract all the low quality users, the same question/problem will be asked/reported over and over again.
That's true for Discord too though.
- pc86 3y ago> > They might as well choose the platform they themselves prefer. Nobody said Discord solved that problem, only that GitHub hasn't either.
- katbyte 3y agoDiscord is worse then GitHub issues by far
- kawhah 3y agoBut Github has the closest thing to a solution - a public repository of all the previous questions which people can search to discover if someone has already had the same issue.
- lagniappe 3y agoIn my experience, people rarely search previous issues.
- bathtub365 3y agoThis is obviously false since there are several people in this discussion who have mentioned they search previous issues
- starttoaster 3y agoMaybe the people of HN are just a small minority of users that contribute GitHub Issues on popular public repositories and not very well representative of the whole? Have you maintained a popular repository on GitHub? I can vouch for tons of spam/duplicate Issues.
- inetknght 3y agoThere might be a ton of duplicate issues. There might also be a ton of duplicate issues not brought up by a FAQ. How would you measure those?
- treyd 3y agoProbably would be a problem that using LLMs to suggest related issues would help with.
- inetknght 3y agoIf only GitHub (Microsoft) had a LLM product they could use when someone is writing an issue or pull request...