That would be helpful. Pick one no preference,
Thanks!
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Github Discussions would be best from a technical standpoint, which is why we’re considering it. It’s not as feature-full, forum wise, as Discourse but it’s very user friendly and easy to use. The added benefit of using it is the majority of our developers are already in GitHub throughout the day, and will be able to more easily engage with users who wish to use a non-discord option to communicate. Additionally, we’ll have the ability to easily convert discussions into tickets and transfer them to the appropriate repo if there’s a bug/feature we want to track.
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Since we’re already using GitHub for storing our code base, issue tracking, contributions, and PRs—basically everything—moving to GitHub Discussions makes sense to help consolidate the community. Right now, the fragmentation between platforms makes it difficult for developers to meaningfully engage across multiple places. While we’re not aiming to centralize everything in one spot, moving our forum to GitHub helps streamline communication in a way that makes sense for our developers. It won’t change the project’s open-source stance—we’ll continue to operate just as openly and transparently. This is really about simplifying our workflow and making it easier for everyone to engage without adding more platforms to the mix.
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Yeah that was just my two cents, I mean you guys have ALL the workload, so more power to you on your decisions 
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So dug out my git login to go look at the setup, don’t like, I had to manually set notifications to appear on git instead of being emailed, but that breaks email notifications if I ever use git again, sure I can sort my email, but why should I have to change my flow because git isn’t flexible enough around notifications that you’ll get drowned if your an active discussion member who also contributes so wants emails
I’m not sure if ignored repositories removes notifications for the discussions but even if you could you either have all notifications one way or block some, it’s not designed for non coders to discuss things.
If it’s that or discord I choose a different project or reddit, as git and discord are just foul for casual interaction.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I am NOT for moving discussions over to GitHub. That said, I’ll certainly follow wherever the community goes, but the GitHub presentation layer leaves a lot to be desired for the non-technically savvy folks among us. I say that with 20+ years experience as a network engineer, so I’m not at all bothered by it, but one of the best things about this forum is the softer edges and more friendly demeanor.
Once you tell folks they need to have a Microsoft Owned GitHub account, it changes the social demeanor of the community quite a bit from one that’s more friendly folks helping friendly folks in a community-like fashion to more of a corporate feeling technical resource with a high-bar to entry.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve used GitHub personally and professionally for a long time, I’m not personally put off by it…other than the Microsoft connection, that is. There’s something to be said for decentralization. Not everything has to be in Google, M$, or Apple’s ecosystems.
Leave GitHub for technical issues. I’ve opened issues there myself, and engaged with developers. There’s a place for both a social/technical community as well as a purely technical messaging system. Keeping the anecdotal chit chat…which I enjoy…out of the Developer forums seems like a good idea to me.
A casual entrant into this topic might have some easy-on-ramp questions. That person might feel overwhelmed by needing to sign up for a personal GitHub account, then think twice before posting a number of largely anecdotal (but nonetheless useful, to that individual) questions. That person might, instead, just opt to move on, whereas a forum such as this lends itself much better to that level of social community interaction.
FWIW, all things being equal, my $1.05 is to stay here…but I wont throw a fit or refuse to follow if my sentiment is a minority opinion. I’ve grown to like the community here and feel like we’d lose some of that personalization if this got shipped over there.
Regards,
Pol
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Nicely expressed. Agree 100%. A major loss to leave here for the users due to ease of use as compared with Git. Why not open GitHub Discussions now and leave this open and see what happens?
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