Comment by dmart

5 years ago

No, please don't. I don't want to make a separate account for a random forum, and I especially don't want to use Discourse.

Just use GitHub Issues and Discussions, please - it's so much simpler for everyone.

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mooreds  5 years ago

> Just use GitHub Issues and Discussions, please - it's so much simpler for everyone.

This is a totally valid choice and I know folks who have gone that path. If you are focused on an OSS project, it is a nobrainer.

From a company standpoint, there are downsides:

  * who owns the user? GitHub
  * who owns the posts you and your community are making? GitHub
  * who owns the links and the other residual benefits from knowledge being shared on the site? GitHub

Weighed against all of that is the fact that there is a tremendous number of developers on GitHub and you are engaging with them where they are. At $CURJOB we try to separate bugs/feature requests (which go to GitHub) from support (which goes to a forum).

Again, it's a tradeoff that anyone trying to foster a developer community should consider.