# I'm Leaving Discourse for Github

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/im-leaving-discourse-for-github/2397>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/im-leaving-discourse-for-github/2397 "2023-09-05T18:59:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![RollingStar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/rollingstar/32/728_2.png) [@RollingStar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/RollingStar)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/im-leaving-discourse-for-github/2397/1 "2023-09-05T18:59:01Z")

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I am no longer checking this forum as of now. The reasons are outlined below.

For years now our project has maintained two nearly identical forums, one here and one on Github. This splits our userbase and makes our project feel isolated. I believe we should all move to Github going forward. I did a community survey and found almost no difference in preference between the two sites.

Github Discussions are available here, and I will continue checking them:

> **[beetbox beets · Discussions](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/discussions)**
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> Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for beetbox beets. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.

Further reading:

> [@Clarify discourse vs. github vs. internal dev forum](https://discourse.beets.io/t/clarify-discourse-vs-github-vs-internal-dev-forum/1432/3):
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> Right now we have, afaik: irc (mentioned here [https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/9bab200d3d496968bf517151ca43a91b0aafc26a/docs/faq.rst](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/9bab200d3d496968bf517151ca43a91b0aafc26a/docs/faq.rst) ) internal dev chat (gitter) github discussions github issues discourse For a project that has \<10 active discuss-ers in any given week, this is absurd. I don’t want to have to check a bunch of places to keep up with discussions. In particular, I think a ‘public’ IRC should be retired, since it’s near impossible to search for future generations. I also thi…

> [@1-Question Survey: Discourse vs. Github](https://discourse.beets.io/t/1-question-survey-discourse-vs-github/2117/2):
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> Okay, it’s been 2 months. Anonymized results here (no usernames, no timestamps): Note: The final response is mine. No competitor is as good as Discourse/Github Discussions There’s no use rocking the boat; because both plausible and implausible replacements for the two main platforms don’t have any kind of support in the community. Reddit is the closest, with about half the (strongly like + like) totals that Github or Discourse does. Discourse vs. Github is a t…

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**Author:** ![RollingStar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/rollingstar/32/728_2.png) [@RollingStar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/RollingStar)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/im-leaving-discourse-for-github/2397/2 "2024-05-18T21:01:29Z")

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Jumped in here to look for some of my old posts. Please move to Github for the good of the community.

> **[Unicode](https://xkcd.com/1726/)**
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> I'm excited about the proposal to add a "brontosaurus" emoji codepoint because it has the potential to bring together a half-dozen different groups of pedantic people into a single glorious internet argument.