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GitHub Discussions

The home for developer communities

Ask questions, share ideas, and build connections with each other—all right next to your code. GitHub Discussions enables healthy and productive software collaboration.

Screenshot of a GitHub Discussions page for the ’octoinvaders’ project, showing categorized discussion threads with tags like ’answered’ and ’Long term.’ The interface features playful elements like a mona emjoi and a rocket icon, highlighting community interaction.

Dedicated space for conversations

Decrease the burden of managing active work in issues and pull requests by providing a separate space to host ongoing discussions, questions, and ideas.

Highlight quality responses and make the best answer more discoverable.

Keep context in-tact and conversations on track with threaded comments.

Ask your community directly with custom polls.

Leverage GraphQL API and webhooks to meet your teams wherever they are.

Give your open ended conversations the room they need outside of issues.

Personalize for your community and team with any ways to make your space unique for you and your collaborators.

Monitor insights

Track the health and growth of your community with a dashboard full of actionable data.

![The image is a line graph showing data trends over time for issues, discussions, and pull requests. The x-axis represents dates from March 4th to April 4th, and the y-axis represents the number of occurrences ranging from 0 to 15. The graph includes a solid blue line for issues, a green dotted line for discussions, and a purple dashed line for pull requests.

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Contribution activity

Count of total contribution activity to Discussions, Issues, and PRs.

![The image is a bar chart showing user activity over several dates. The x-axis represents dates (3/8, 3/14, 3/20, 3/26, 4/1, and 4/7), and the y-axis represents the number of users ranging from 0 to 30. Only blue bars, representing "logged in" users, are present. The heights of the blue bars vary: around 5 on 3/8, around 15 on 3/14, around 30 on 3/20, around 20 on both 3/26 and 4/1, and around 15 on 4/7.

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Discussion page view

Total page views to Discussions segmented by logged in vs anonymous users.

![The image is a line graph showing data points over time from March 4th to April 4th. The x-axis represents dates, and the y-axis represents numerical values from 0 to 20. The blue line starts at approximately 16 on March 4th, dips to around 14 on March 10th, rises slightly to about 15 on March 17th, drops to roughly 9 on March 23rd and March 29th, and then sharply increases to a peak value of around 20 on April 4th.

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Discussions daily contributors

Count of unique users who have reacted, upvoted, marked an answer, commented, or posted in the selected period.