[bisq-network/bisq] Trying out GitHub Discussions (#5163)

[Chris Beams]

@bisq-network/dao, I've enabled the new (beta) [GitHub Discussions](https://docs.github.com/en/discussions) feature here in the main Bisq repository to experiment with it and see if we'd like to use it. This is the first such discussion—please feel free to respond to it.

Note that this feature is different than GitHub's existing [Team Discussions](https://docs.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-community/about-team-discussions) feature. We've [tried](https://github.com/orgs/bisq-network/teams/dao/discussions/1) with mixed success to use them, but for the most part they haven't worked very well. The team-based structure makes things too complicated and it's impossible to make discussions truly public. In the end, it just hasn't caught on.

I think this new Discussions feature could be a better fit, especially as a place to more casually discuss ideas around the project. I believe we currently over-use the proposals repository for this purpose. With Discussions, we can more comfortably share ideas and get a sense about whether a more formal proposal is even worth putting together. I hope this can save some time and generally increase engagement.

Have a look at BTCPay Server's repository for an example of what well-managed Discussions can look like: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/discussions.

**Relationship to the existing forum at https://bisq.community.** I would expect the forum to stay as-is for now, continuing to serve primarily as an end-user support resource. The Discussions here in GitHub would, at least to begin with, be more focused on development, new feature ideas, and so on.

**Relationship to existing Compensation Request announcements.** One place where we've been successfully using the older Team Discussions feature is for Compensation Request announcements, e.g. this one [announcing Cycle 21](https://github.com/orgs/bisq-network/teams/dao/discussions/21). I would expect that process to stay the same for now, and I would leave it to the @bisq-network/compensation-maintainers to propose any changes if they'd prefer to use these this new Discussions feature for that purpose instead.

**Regarding notifications.** I mentioned @bisq-network/dao above to make sure that active contributors will see this discussion, but in general, you'll get notified about discussions the same way you get notified about issues and pull requests. As far as I can tell, Discussion notifications conform to your "Watch" settings on this repository. So maybe double-check those settings to be sure you're happy with them.

I'll leave it there for now. Have a look around and feel free to experiment. Please react and/or respond to this discussion and let's see if this feature is a good fit for Bisq. Thanks!

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