npm feedback is now available on GitHub Community. Previously feedback for npm took place on the npm feedback channel, which is going to be sunset as we migrate unresolved discussions.
External users should utilize the new npm category on GitHub Community to make suggestions to any part of npm, the cli, the registry, and the website. Users can vote and rank topics to voice their opinions and give support to existing items.
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We're excited to share four improvements that we think will improve how moderators maintain their communities. Our goal with thesse improvements is to help moderators of large communities distribute the workload of maintaining healthy discourse. The improvements we're proposing are:
triage role to make the following changes (only within Discussions):triage role to report content. (Impacts Discussions, Issues, PRs).The first two changes to the triage role impact existing users with that permission. These changes slightly increase the scope of what the role can do – but we believe that these changes are consistent with how the majority of maintainers are trying to use the triage role.
Changes 3 and 4 impact who can report content by default. Moving forward, new repos will get a better default (letting prior contributors report content), but ultimately, we're putting the power in the hands of maintainers to decide how best to run their communities.
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You can now view trending repositories across GitHub on your feed to discover more repositories of interest.
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Maintainers of GitHub repositories can now use Category Forms to create templates for their Discussions, which means that users can start new discussions with all the necessary information already included. We hope this leads to less repetitive back and forth conversation with maintainers, as users are more likely to capture all relevant details in their first Discussion post.
Similar to Issue Forms, maintainers can create a discussion template, which will live in .github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/. Each template will map 1:1 with the available Discussion Categories slugs. For example, the template for the “Announcements” category will be .github/DISCUSSION_TEMPLATE/announcements.yml. Once created, Category Forms in Discussions will be familiar to users who have seen them in issues:
Learn more about Category Forms
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You can now add a note to describe why the blocking of a user took place, to provide projects and teams with the context around privacy and safety decisions. Notes on blocked users at the organization level will be visible to the owners and moderators of that organization. Notes on blocked users from your personal account will be visible just to you.
You can now express disinterest on rollup items in the "For you" feed to cater the feed towards your preferences. Get started by selecting "Show less activity like this".
This will prompt you to select more information about your preferences.
For questions and feedback, visit Community Feed Feedback.
Users now have the ability to turn their GitHub profile “private”, which gives users controls over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. To enable this setting, visit https://github.com/settings/profile.
Private profiles are in public beta. As we continue to release new privacy control features, please share your feedback.
For more information, see Private Profiles documentation.
You can now enable Discussions for your organization, which is a place for your organization to share announcements and host conversations that aren't specific to a single repository within
your organization. To get started, go to Organization Settings -> Discussions -> Enable discussions for this organization.
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
For questions or feedback, visit GitHub Discussions feedback.
Polls are now available on GitHub Discussions! Polls make it easy for community members to gauge interest, vote, and interact with one another without having to comment. You can also start interacting with polls on our GitHub Mobile apps.
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
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You can now view a preview of marked answers to discussions. Navigate quickly to the answer in a thread with the Jump to answer button.
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
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Get insights on your Discussions community with the new dashboard called Community in the Insights tab. This dashboard gives you a quick way to monitor the following:
For more information, see GitHub Discussions documentation.
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GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, providing your community a central gathering space to ask questions, share ideas, and build connections. To get started with Discussions, admins and maintainers can enable Discussions under repository settings.
Learn more about GitHub Discussions.
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We've added enhanced support for CITATION.cff files to GitHub. CITATION.cff files are plain text files with human- and machine-readable citation information, and with this new feature, GitHub parses this information into convenient formats such as APA and BibTeX that can be copied by others.
Under the hood, we’re using the ruby-cff RubyGem to parse the contents of the CITATION.cff file and build a citation string that is then shown in the GitHub user interface. Special thanks to the gem creators @sdruskat @jspaaks and @hainesr who worked with us to build this.
GitHub Discussions integrations are now available on GitHub Actions. You can now trigger workflows on Discussion and DiscussionComment webhook events.
Get started with GitHub Discussions & Actions.
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Labels and a new announcements category format are now available as part of the GitHub Discussions public beta. Labels will help maintainers triage and organize their discussions. When creating a new custom category, maintainers may now select the Announcements format where only maintainers and admins can post discussions to these categories.
Get started with GitHub Discussions.
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