GitHub discussions further gamify the platform

2 points by candied_scarf 5 years ago | 3 comments

discussions gamify github like contribution graph. there are no counts for discussions like issues/prs so authors can hide issues by moving them.

see for example: https://github.com/isoron/uhabits

anything that isnt specific a crash is moved to discussions so it can be ignore. anyone see similar in other repos?

doing this keeps issues low by hiding them so stars etc can be high. then author says they have only a few issues open for the project, and users see the same so think its probably good

detaro 5 years ago |

Having Discussions doesn't gamify github, giving value to issue count/stars/... does.

candied_scarf 5 years ago | |

in my example they devalue them by hiding reported bugs

detaro 5 years ago | | |

Instead of closing or deleting the issue? Makes no difference.