You can now view a preview of marked answers to discussions. Navigate quickly to the answer in a thread with the Jump to answer button.
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
Discussions are now supported in the GitHub app for Microsoft Teams and Slack.
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discussions feature from a channel in Microsoft Teams or Slack, or a personal app in Microsoft Teams.URL previews
For more information, see the full documentation for GitHub for Microsoft Teams or GitHub for Slack.
Get insights on your Discussions community with the new dashboard called Community in the Insights tab. This dashboard gives you a quick way to monitor the following:
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, providing your community a central gathering space to ask questions, share ideas, and build connections. To get started with Discussions, admins and maintainers can enable Discussions under repository settings.
Learn more about GitHub Discussions.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
🌏 Today we're releasing a new beta feature that allows you to translate GitHub Discussions content into different spoken languages. This initial beta release includes support for Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and English, and we plan to add support for more languages soon.
This beta feature is now enabled for all users. To try it out, configure your web browser with Korean or Brazilian Portuguese as the default language, then navigate to any GitHub repo that has Discussions enabled. Click the overflow menu beside any discussion comment and you'll see a link to translate it to your preferred language:
To see some popular communities using GitHub Discussions, check out docs.github.com/discussions.
We'd love to hear what you think of this new feature and how it can be improved. Please join the discussions below to share your feedback.
GitHub Discussions integrations are now available on GitHub Actions. You can now trigger workflows on Discussion and DiscussionComment webhook events.
Get started with GitHub Discussions & Actions.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
Labels and a new announcements category format are now available as part of the GitHub Discussions public beta. Labels will help maintainers triage and organize their discussions. When creating a new custom category, maintainers may now select the Announcements format where only maintainers and admins can post discussions to these categories.
Get started with GitHub Discussions.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
You can now link discussions to new releases!
When drafting a new release, check the Create a discussion for this release box, choose a category, and publish. Your community will be able to react and comment on the release notes, giving projects more opportunities to celebrate and receive feedback. Release discussions are also available natively on GitHub Mobile.
For more information, see GitHub Discussions, GitHub Releases and GitHub Mobile documentation.
For questions or feedback, join the conversation in GitHub Product Feedback.
Webhook events for GitHub Discussions are now available as a public beta. Get started with the GitHub Discussions webhooks.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
GitHub Discussions is now available for private repositories. To get started, maintainers and admins of private repositories can
now enable Discussions under Features in the repository settings.
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
The GitHub Discussions GraphQL API public beta is now available. Get started with the GitHub Discussions API.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
GitHub Mobile 1.4.0 is now generally available on Android and iOS app stores. The 1.4.0 release includes native support for GitHub Discussions:
GitHub Discussions is now available as a public beta, providing you with a dedicated space for your community to ask and answer questions, and have conversations that are separate from issues in your repository.
Discussions work a lot like issues. However, with discussions you can also:
We will continue adding more functionality based on your feedback, including adding Discussions to GitHub for mobile as a beta.
If you are an admin or maintainer of a public repository you can enable Discussions via repository settings for your community today!