{"meta":{"title":"About discussions","intro":"Use discussions to ask and answer questions, share information, make announcements, and conduct or participate in a conversation about a project.","product":"GitHub Discussions","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/discussions","title":"GitHub Discussions"},{"href":"/en/discussions/collaborating-with-your-community-using-discussions","title":"Collaborating using discussions"},{"href":"/en/discussions/collaborating-with-your-community-using-discussions/about-discussions","title":"About discussions"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# About discussions\n\nUse discussions to ask and answer questions, share information, make announcements, and conduct or participate in a conversation about a project.\n\n## About GitHub Discussions\n\nGitHub Discussions allows your project's community to engage in conversations about the project's direction and future in an open-ended format. Maintainers, contributors, and visitors can gather in a central location, without third-party tools.\n\n* Share announcements and information\n* Plan and make decisions with community input\n* Encourage and answer questions, and mark them answered as you respond to them\n* Gauge community opinion using polls\n\n![Screenshot of the \"Discussions\" page for a repository, showing a list of discussions such as \"Feedback on the new layout\" and \"Project direction\".](/assets/images/help/discussions/hero.png)\n\nYou can use **repository** discussions to discuss topics that are specific to one repository and **organization** discussions for broader conversations that span multiple repositories.\n\nAnyone with access to a repository or organization can create and participate in discussions there. However, an administrator must enable GitHub Discussions for the repository or organization first.\n\n## Managing discussions\n\nGitHub Discussions includes tools for managing discussions, and for using discussions to manage the repository or organization.\n\n* Pin discussions to give topics more visibility\n* Mark comments as answers in question-and-answer categories to help users find information more quickly\n* Lock discussions that have reached a conclusion or become too heated\n* Convert open-ended issues into discussions\n* Close discussions that are no longer useful\n\nDiscussions are opened in user-defined categories, and can be further organized with repository labels. For more information about discussion management, see [Managing discussions](/en/discussions/managing-discussions-for-your-community/managing-discussions).\n\n## Sharing feedback\n\nYou can share your feedback about GitHub Discussions with GitHub. To join the conversation, see [GitHub Community discussions](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/discussions).\n\n## Next steps\n\nIf you're ready to try GitHub Discussions, get started at [Quickstart for GitHub Discussions](/en/discussions/quickstart)."}