Discord is worse then GitHub issues by far

But Github has the closest thing to a solution - a public repository of all the previous questions which people can search to discover if someone has already had the same issue.

This is obviously false since there are several people in this discussion who have mentioned they search previous issues

Maybe the people of HN are just a small minority of users that contribute GitHub Issues on popular public repositories and not very well representative of the whole? Have you maintained a popular repository on GitHub? I can vouch for tons of spam/duplicate Issues.

There might be a ton of duplicate issues. There might also be a ton of duplicate issues not brought up by a FAQ. How would you measure those?

Probably would be a problem that using LLMs to suggest related issues would help with.

If only GitHub (Microsoft) had a LLM product they could use when someone is writing an issue or pull request...