I think as long as the mentality is to replace Google Groups with GitHub Discussions, we should just stop even considering GitHub discussions. It currently is not such a replacement, and will never be.

Regarding email use, I have all the GitHub notifications directed to my email too. So I can see how many spam there are from the pandoc issue tracker. Not a lot, but not negligible.

Historically pandoc has Google groups, and it has been mentioned in the website this should be the de facto place for pandoc questions, but there’s also a new bleed of pandoc users that just surf over GitHub and don’t even go to pandoc.org. Those are the GitHub issue spammers.

So the mentality here is if you can’t beat them, join them. Give them a place to put non issue on GitHub directly.
On Dec 11, 2020, 9:09 AM -0800, TRS-80 <lists.trs-80-C7oIis/24ff2zvSPaPeTFA@public.gmane.org>, wrote:
> On 2020-12-11 11:17, denis.maier-FfwAq0itz3ofv37vnLkPlQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Please don’t create more than one place for discussion. I’m happy
> > to do either Google groups or a discourse server, but not both.
>
> > > On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 5:16:57 PM UTC-8 John MacFarlane
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > One big drawback is that you would need a GitHub account to
> > > > contribute.
> > > >
> > > > By contrast, it's possible to ask a question using this group
> > > > without signing up for a new account. You can even do it by sending
> > > > an email.
>
> In addition to excellent points others already made, I personally do not
> think that, just because Microsoft is in full swing on their
> "Extend"[0] phase, that we[1] need to oblige them in any way...
>
> In fact moving discussion from mailing list format (which is quite open
> and standardized) onto a proprietary platform[2] would be a huge step
> backwards IMO, for all reasons already mentioned, and more.
>
> Cheers,
> TRS-80
>
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
>
> [1] I use the royal "we" liberally, as I am quite new member on this
> list.
>
> [2] I am aware the irony the mailing list is hosted at Google Groups;
> however I consider this an just implementation detail; as John already
> pointed out, you can still interact in the "normal" way without
> requiring a Google account (this is what I do in fact).
>
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