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This is interesting but like that one site that was bought recently (get satisfaction) this is another site that I, as a repository owner, has to track down to find customer feedback. Kinda like Gitter.im, yet another external service I have to be aware of.

It's difficult to be omnipresent so I can track all of the different pieces of feedback my project may be getting; even though it's not ideal I'd rather everyone just funnel through Github issues just so I can interact with them and be aware of any issues or requests. I don't want to miss out on any feedback should it be on an external service I do not know about.

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Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I agree with you, having to keep tabs with thousands of new services is annoying.

In that case though, you shouldn't have to worry about missing some users' feedback. That's why you have to register your project with FeatHub before people can give feedback (we temporarily enabled anonymous import to boostrap the service, but that won't last). This way, as a repo owner, you know you have enabled FeatHub.

Also, it's not implemented now, but we could imagine notifying owners on a regular basis. I suggested the improvement there: http://feathub.com/feathub/feathub/+8

The pattern of "Oh, sure, we're associated with that project" is a very dark one. "Contribute to something on GitHub off of GitHub" has been used by a number of hard-to-verify bitcoin tip sites, recruiter schemes, and shadier characters. I hope featurehub goes opt-in very soon so it can avoid a noisy argument like this one that made it to HN last October:

https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127

Oh, I hadn't seen this. That's very interesting, thanks for the pointer. I'll fix this ASAP.

That's a better, faster response than I have ever seen to this topic. I wish HN let me post a happy animated GIF to celebrate your choice!

I'm glad that it DOES NOT support gifs.

Done! Now you have to own a project on GitHub to be able to add it on FeatHub :)

It seems like you build off the comments of issues, parsing for the :+1:, you could functionally provide the same tooling, but in the same additive way that waffle.io does.

We're not parsing GitHub comments ATM. That's a good idea though, but it would be difficult to track content. Maybe it's just simpler to track issues in one place and improvements in another?

Looking at Waffle.io, it seems to me that they don't actually store any data on their end. Everything is managed with issues, comments, and tagging.

It would be nice if GitHub just had a way to vote on issues without cluttering the comments and sending out lots of useless emails.

Example: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-installers/issues/12

And, like Get Satisfaction, it's a pretty dick move to imply to my users that I'm affiliated with you and that their voices can be heard through you. I certainly have sympathy for Mark Otto (https://twitter.com/mdo/status/591707867498946560) asking them to stop doing that.

You shouldn't have to opt out of stuff like this.

That was a mistake. We've made it fully opt-in now.

Also here's the whole Twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/feathub/status/591715888782520320

Would it be sketchy if feathub built a bot that periodically posted feathub summaries in the github issues system?

Gitter.im has an IRC interface so at least I can idle in my projects gitter irc chat in emacs when programming in the best programming language node.js

Thanks, I should probably look into that... I already have a pandora and slack window open all the time, and to add gitter.im to the mix, it's rarely open... I kind of wish I could just do it all from IRC.

I'm starting to think that creating a newer, extensible IRC client might be an opportunity.

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