> message boards suffer from the SSO friction issue

GitHub is an SSO provider and has been for a long time. This criticism is ignorant.

Aside from that, there's nothing stopping anyone from using GitHub's dedicated message boards for message board stuff, or, before those existed, shunting it all off into the "issues" of a separate "$PROJECT/community-bullshit" "repo" instead of cluttering up the actual bugtracker.

> Social media... yikes. No, no, no.

I'm talking about the appropriate-for-social-media stuff people are already posting on GitHub issues. It's like you started writing your comment and lost the context. People are today already misusing GitHub issues for this. I'm saying keep the stuff best kept to social media and email... on social media and email. Don't clutter the bugtracker with it, and for project managers: don't let other users do it either. (You will lose contributors who know how to use a bugtracker efficaciously and are accustomed to it but have a fixed time budget and don't want to have to sift through junk for the privilege of doing free and thankless QA on your software.)

> You will drown in spam.

The irony. Help. It burns.

For emphasis: Everything that isn't a bug belongs on a message board, mailing list, or social media, and not on the bugtracker. Anyone who can't abide by this simple, totally reasonable request should be booted.