2 years ago

Category: Data, github

GitHub this week said it was finally moving GitHub Discussions out of beta and making it generally available. The feature, which was first introduced into public beta in December 2020 and made available to private repositories last March, makes it easier to, well, have discussions (as you might have imagined from the name). I must say, as someone who has grown up discussing things on the internet, even before the internet was really a thing, I have a soft spot for this sort of thing, and I’m honestly a bit surprised it took this long for GitHub to get there.

Perhaps it’s just a function of old school folks sticking with their old school ways, but given the ubiquity of GitHub for hosting open source projects, adding the ability for these communities to have discussions with many of the modern conveniences we’ve come to expect just seems like common sense.

After nearly a year in beta, GitHub Discussions is now available, and it seems that those who have gotten to use it during that time period are fully in favor of the new features.