Problem

We'd like to stop using GitHub discussions, but don't want to lose all of the historical discussion. We also don't want to migrate these discussion replies manually, as it would be a lot of work. Disabling the discussions feature on our repos causes links to the discussions to 404.

Description

Using the GitHub's GraphQL Explorer we can write a query that gets all discussions and their replies (including both levels of threading/nesting) for a repository:

query { 
	repository(name: "openverse", owner: "wordpress") {
    discussions(first: 20) {
      nodes {
        title
        body
        comments(first: 100) {
          nodes {
            id
            author {
              login
            }
            body
            replies(first: 100) {
              nodes {
                author {
                  login
                }
                body
                id
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

We could then format these and post them as issues. This would let us ensure that all discussion contents are accessible while archiving the GitHub feature.

Questions

• Where do we want to preserve these? As issues? Adding the replies to the existing issues @AetherUnbound created?
• Are we okay with discussion links 404-ing, even if this information is available elsewhere? We could also search for and replace discussion urls in issues + PRs with the new links if needed.