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>>xpe+(OP)
Issues simply don't scale. Using discussions as a filter is a good idea.

If you spend more time closing issues than creating them manually from discussions, the math adds up.

>>keyle+U9
What is the actual difference?

As a maintainers, if you want to be be able to tell real issues from non-issue discussions, you still gave to read them (triage). That's what's taking time.

I don't see how transforming a discussion into an issue is less effort than the other way around. Both are a click.

Github's issues and discussions seem the same feature to me (almost identical UI with different naming).

The only potential benefit I can see is that discussions have a top-level upvote count.

>>nh2+Se
If discussions had a more modern UI with threads or something then the difference might be real. But AFAICT it’s the same set of functionality, so it’s effectively equivalent to a tag.