GitHub Discussions is a collaborative forum feature integrated into public and private repositories, designed to facilitate Q&A, community announcements, and more. Since its 2020 launch, it has been used by various open-source communities to enhance interactions, such as the React team for discussing new releases like React 18, the Dogecoin community for gathering feature requests and engaging developers, NASA for collaborating on core flight systems, Pixar for managing conversations around its OpenTimelineIO project, and the Next.JS community for a wide range of discussions. This platform helps centralize dialogue within the repository environment, complementing GitHub Issues by separating actionable work from broader conversations, and fostering community building directly where the code resides.