# Discussion categories

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-categories/85>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [November 1, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-categories/85 "2016-11-01T20:22:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-categories/85/17 "2016-11-05T13:54:05Z")

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Discourse is more of a forum, long text discussions (with formatting, code-highlighting, etc…), whereas Gitter is more of a chat-room (ephemeral?). What level of Github integration are you looking for?

If you send me a PM with a blurb I can update the category description.

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