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		garfieldnate on Sept 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum I wonder why GitHub never implemented "does this other existing ticket already cover your issue?" suggestions like StackOverflow. That would probably help in a lot of these situations.

rob74 on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

...instead, they activate the stalebot that deletes "stale" tickets (that may however contain valuable workarounds for a problem) by default.

See also this article that was posted here a few weeks ago: https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html

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