[Meta] Enable GitHub Discussion.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Content

I've used a blank template because I didn't want this to be automatically triaged as a BR or FR, since it's neither - an RFC for the repository itself. If this is incorrect, I'll transfer it to a standard template.

Request

Currently, https://discord.com/channels/1015060230222131221/1257025907625951423 is the sole asynchronous forum on the Discord server. This means that searching for Q&As is incredibly difficult, because the searcher must search through all messages for specific keywords, not concise titles.

Addtional rationale is available at 8go/matrix-commander#68 (comment).

Alternatives

A Q&A forum channel on the Discord server would suffice, but that's out of scope for this issue.

Example

As an example, I want to install the RPM so that I can provide actionable GNOME ABRT traces when the package crashes, without losing the automatic updates which Flatpak provides.

Consequently, I'd like to ask whether https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/releases/download/v1.5.3/vesktop-1.5.3.x86_64.rpm shall add an update repository, or whether it merely installs that version of the package:

PS /home/RokeJulianLockhart> sudo dnf install 'https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/releases/download/v1.5.3/vesktop-1.5.3.x86_64.rpm'
[sudo] password for RokeJulianLockhart: 
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          34 kB/s |  15 kB     00:00    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         1.1 MB/s | 1.8 MB     00:01    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  31 kB/s |  14 kB     00:00    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 105 kB/s |  70 kB     00:00    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Test Updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     51 kB/s |  22 kB     00:00    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Test Updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1.5 MB/s | 2.3 MB     00:01    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Test Updates Debug                                                                                                                                                                                                                               40 kB/s |  21 kB     00:00    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Test Updates Debug                                                                                                                                                                                                                               33 kB/s |  36 kB     00:01    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free tainted                                                                                                                                                                                                                               25 kB/s | 7.2 kB     00:00    
vesktop-1.5.3.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             3.1 MB/s |  73 MB     00:23    
Dependencies resolved.
=====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                               Architecture                                                         Version                                                                 Repository                                                                  Size
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Installing:
 vesktop                                                               x86_64                                                               1.5.3-1                                                                 @commandline                                                                73 M

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 73 M
Installed size: 268 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

[Vendicated]

We have no interest in maintaining a Github forum, sorry. Questions are mostly answered by the community, not developers. Plus most of our users don't even have GitHub, while every single one has Discord (due to the Discord-based nature of this project), so it is most logical to just have discussions on Discord

A Q&A forum on Discord sounds like a good middle ground though, we might consider this! Plus if we do this, we could also mirror messages to an external platform which would allow anyone to access it even without Discord. If you would like to discuss this further, you can open a modmail or just a normal thread in our Discord community

For now though, such discussions can just go in our Discord support channel

[RokeJulianLockhart]

A Q&A forum on Discord sounds like a good middle ground though, we might consider this! Plus if we do this, we could also mirror messages to an external platform which would allow anyone to access it even without Discord.

Thanks, @Vendicated. That's reasonable.

1. If you would like to discuss this further, you can open a modmail or just a normal thread in our Discord community.

   I've filed a modmail ticket:

   1. Per https://discord.com/channels/1015060230222131221/1026515880080842772

      A Q&A forum on Discord sounds like a good middle ground though, we might consider this! Plus if we do this, we could also mirror messages to an external platform which would allow anyone to access it even without Discord. If you would like to discuss this further, you can open a modmail or just a normal thread in our Discord community

      I'd like to suggest a Q&A forum channel like https://discord.com/channels/1015060230222131221/1257025907625951423, so that when asking questions, users don't have to abuse https://discord.com/channels/1015060230222131221/1026515880080842772 or https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues.

   2. I've provided an example at [Meta] Enable GitHub Discussion. #913 (comment):

      As an example, I want to install the RPM so that I can provide actionable GNOME ABRT traces when the package crashes, without losing the automatic updates which Flatpak provides.

      Consequently, I'd like to ask whether https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/releases/download/v1.5.3/vesktop-1.5.3.x86_64.rpm shall add an update repository, or whether it merely installs that version of the package:

      PS /home/RokeJulianLockhart> sudo dnf install '/home/RokeJulianLockhart/Downloads/vesktop-1.5.3.x86_64.rpm'
      [sudo] password for RokeJulianLockhart: 
      Last metadata expiration check: 1:40:43 ago on Sat 19 Oct 2024 14:20:04 BST.
      Dependencies resolved.
      ======================================================================================================
       Package               Architecture         Version                  Repository                  Size
      ======================================================================================================
      Installing:
       vesktop               x86_64               1.5.3-1                  @commandline                73 M
      
      Transaction Summary
      ======================================================================================================
      Install  1 Package
      
      Total size: 73 M
      Installed size: 268 M
      Is this ok [y/N]:
      

2. For now though, such discussions can just go in our Discord support channel.

   I've asked https://discord.com/channels/1015060230222131221/1026515880080842772/1301543967237738587.