Discussion - Discussions

[cannawen]

GitHub issues does not seem like a great platform for discussions. The conversation is linearly organized and chronologically​ ordered.

Should only the top post be made on GitHub, and then locked while linking to a discussion thread on /r/metric_units subreddit? Reddit seems like a much more natural place for discussions, where each point can be a separate comment and there can be comment replies. Sorting by upvotes would also be nice

Pros:

• better discussion format
• Redditors without GitHub accounts can contribute

Cons:

• you need to create a Reddit account to contribute
• information scattered across platforms (you need to check Reddit and GitHub to keep current)

Once a "decision" has been reached on reddit, the decision can be copied back to Github and the Reddit post can be locked. Re-visiting a discussion on the topic must be done through a new issue/thread

Any feedback from the community? Give a thumbs up if you like the Reddit idea, thumbs down if you don't.

[cannawen]

I guess organization is not too big of a concern right now, since our discussions are small.

But it makes me sad that discussions threads usually only have 2 people talking back and forth. Perhaps reddit would feel more inviting for discussions, since you can create a new comment thread to give feedback instead of "butting into someone else's conversation" (<--- even though doing this is totally ok and encouraged)

[cannawen]

Created #87 to see if it works! Closing this issue.