GitHub is really useful for issue tracking on open source projects. It's annoying to have to hunt through whatever 90's era mailing list archive website to see if someone else has had the same issue on projects that don't use it.
It would be nice if discussions were done on a newsgroup instead. At least you don't have to be part of the conversation and you can read through discussions as far back as the retention policy on the NNTP server allows.
