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[klzns]

With the new GitHub Discussions feature, it would be great if we had visibility of activities of Discussions in Slack.

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[jules2689]

Thanks so much for this feature request!

We've passed it along to the discussions team who is still working on all the details for that feature as it's still in beta.
We don't have anything to report back right now, other than to thank you for opening this ❤️

[klzns]

Any news about this?

[despreston]

+1

[amogkam]

+1, this would be super useful!

[vinckr]

+1, this is still not possible right?

[maxim-lobanov]

Is there any ETA on this feature? It would be super useful!

[Ngoguey42]

+1

[vinckr]

Looking at #1103 I doubt this will ever happen.
This will probably be easy to pull off when there is a proper Github API endpoint for the discussions.

[eregon]

I'd like to see this as well. GitHub Discussions is becoming more widely used now, and this would be a great way to gets updates on Slack for GitHub Discussions.

[sizeak]

+1, would find very useful

[becca]

@evi-liu will have some updates for y'all on this! ✨

[evi-liu]

Hey folks, Discussions PM here. Thanks for all the feedback on this so far! Our team is currently hard at work on implementing webhooks right now, so you'll be able to start integrating with Slack in the coming weeks. I'll keep this post updated once we have a private beta available to try out.

[Kaspik]

@evi-liu Hey Evi! Discussions webhook is in public beta now - do we have ETA on final release and ETA when Slack integration might support Discussions then? :) Thanks!

[dprada]

+1, I would find it very useful

[dito]

+1

[evi-liu]

Hi folks, we're slotted to begin this work in the coming weeks, so stay tuned and I'll post an update once the Slack integration is available for testing. In the meantime, I'd love to know: what kind of Discussions info would be valuable to integrate with Slack?

[Kaspik]

• new discussion/topic opened
• discussion marked as answered

I'm not sure about comments - it could become pretty spammy. But without notification about "new discussion opened" it's pretty easy to miss a new topic.

[stephenyeargin]

Idea: Let's move the discussion (on Discussions, how meta!) to #1140 since there's an open thread there.

[dbeckwith]

I agree that comment notifications could be spammy but would still like the option to have those for verbose slack channels and so people can follow along with discussions without needing to open GitHub. A distinct notification for "discussion marked as answered" sounds very useful too.

[barkerja]

In the meantime, I'd love to know: what kind of Discussions info would be valuable to integrate with Slack?

1. Discussion creation
2. Personal replies (mentions)
3. Discussion closed (answered)

[alrightjones]

Hi folks, we're slotted to begin this work in the coming weeks, so stay tuned and I'll post an update once the Slack integration is available for testing.

@evi-liu has the slack app <> discussions integration baked or still waiting on testing? Thanks in advance🙏

[evi-liu]

still actively being worked on our team! sorry, it's been taking a while. we've run into some unexpected complications, but hope to start beta testing with folks very, very soon 🙏

[alrightjones]

@evi-liu we'd love to be a beta test partner! We have a large active community in slack (2.5k) and we need to start moving the discussions from Slack >> GitHub Discussions. This would be 👩🏾‍🍳 💋 !

[vinckr]

Would also love to beta test 😄

[peteroneilljr]

Also happy to test this if anyone has a beta available!

[Relequestual]

I wonder how the actual intergration will stack up against my Zapier hack!
Can't wait to test and provide feedback!

[JasonTheAdams]

Would love to be in on that beta! Pretty easy to miss important messages right now. 😬

[antn]

Hey folks! Thanks for your patience. This is now available on Slack! 🎉

You can try it out with /github subscribe owner/repo discussions.

You'll receive notifications whenever a discussion is created or when a discussion has a comment marked as an answer.

This feature requires granting the Slack app read permissions for discussions in your organization. If necessary, you should be prompted to update the app permissions when subscribing to discussions. Please note that you must be an organization owner to approve this permissions update.

Let us know if you have any feedback!

[jeffpaul]

@antn I'm seeing that using /github subscribe owner/repo discussions also adds on other things like commits, etc when just discussions are expected. Is that a known bug?

[antn]

@jeffpaul ah, sorry for the confusion. When adding a new subscription to a repository and specifying a feature, it enables subscriptions for our default features, and the feature you specify in the command.

If you want to only receive notifications for discussions, you can unsubscribe from those default subscriptions:

/github unsubscribe owner/repo issues pulls commits releases deployments

Hope that helps!

[creasty]

Thank you, this is really helpful!

You'll receive notifications whenever a discussion is created or when a discussion has a comment marked as an answer.

@antn Could you clarify the last part?
Does this mean regular comments won't be notified?
Ones before being marked as an answer and any comments under a category that have answers feature disabled.

[antn]

@creasty Subscribing to discussions comments isn't supported yet, that's correct. We're open to adding this in the future, but this initial feature only notifies when a discussion comment is marked as an answer.

[gelicia]

I work on a repo that funnels feature requests into discussions. We would love to be able to be notified when a discussion for our team (signified by the discussion's label) is created, or when the discussion is edited to include our label.

[blakewilson]

@antn Thanks a lot for the discussions integration. This will be really helpful for our team. Is there any roadmap to support discussion comment notifications as well?

[cczona]

What is the current status of getting notifications of new Discussion posts?

[rowi1de]

Is it possible to filter Discussion Notifications by category?

[lukens]

@creasty Subscribing to discussions comments isn't supported yet, that's correct. We're open to adding this in the future, but this initial feature only notifies when a discussion comment is marked as an answer.

I would really love if discussion comments could be subscribed to too, like they can for issues (including with the channel option to broadcast them to the channel, as well as posting them in a thread on the parent).