GitHub Issues are being deprecated.

[manishrjain]

GitHub Issues are deprecated. Use Discuss Issues for reporting issues about this repository.

[github-actions]

Use Discuss Issues for reporting issues about this repository.

[martaver]

This is singularly a terrible idea.

The new discussion tool looks to be an own-rolled app and I, personally, can't even log in with my GitHub credentials.

The new discussion format lacks many, many features that allow for meaningful conversations in GitHub issues. GitHub allows for discussions that link PRs, issues, ping relevant users etc. and allow individuals to participate in multiple repositories at once.

Your users don't need yet another discussion tool.

This move actively discourages users from participating in the improvement of your product by introducing orders of magnitude more friction and withholding vital features. In this way it provides the appearance that the dgraph team doesn't want to deal with real world user issues, and it also inhibits good software citizenship.

Please reconsider this move.

[martaver]

FWIW, snowpack recently went through the same experience. FredKSchott/snowpack#606

GitHub is actually releasing a new feature called Discussions to cater for exactly this scenario, and snowpack was able to get early access to it.

I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but might @gr2m be able to help get the dgraph team in the Discussions early access? Apologies if this is out of line.

[gr2m]

@manishrjain is this something you’d be interested in trying? Do you have any questions or concerns?

[WolfgangFahl]

https://dgraph.io/docs/tutorials/ still points to github and it would be good if the issues could be found here.

[corysimmons]

Thoughts on deprecating Discuss in favor of Github Discussions so devs can get all their notifications in one place and don't have to make yet another account? Also the UI is infinitely better.

[homerjam]

This is so confusing. Almost every issue on Discuss links to Github in some way and vice versa. Seems like a lot of unnecessary friction to me.

[mysticaltech]

First time I have ever seen an open-source project on Github without issues! That can mean only one thing, this is not a true Github-style open-source project (yes Apache 2.0 yada yada). Issues shine a bad light on the project, and you do not want to provide support for free. So in truth, this open-source project is probably just a bait for your paid option. Really sad!

[andrewbanchich]

@manishrjain What is the reason for this? It is definitely a bizarre move and I think it's clear the community dislikes it a great deal. Maybe some insight into why this decision was made could help clear things up.

Many repos, including dgraph should have access to GitHub Discussions now, which would be ideal.