On May 02, 2017, at 03:54 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
To touch on this a bit more, arguably GitHub is *more* suited to long form discussion, given that it includes the ability to format your text which is an incredibly important part of producing readable content more then a few sentences long. You can attempt to apply some of this with bpo using ASCII representations, but an inlined URL or a footnote to the URL is never going to be as good as a hyperlink, or an inlined image, or bold, italics, etc.
This might be true w.r.t. GH vs. bpo, but both of them are inferior IMHO to mailing lists or other types of threaded discussions. Personally, I find GitLab to have a better conversational UX than GitHub, but neither is threaded so it forces the discussions to be linear. That's okay for many discussions, but far inferior to more wide ranging discussions.
-Barry