GitHub discussions are not often looked at by users and maintainers.

The hope is that a community will build on the forum, similar to the PyTorch forum, where users can go to ask questions and seek advice about building with vLLM. Then, the GitHub issues will become more focused on building vLLM.

If this goes well, then users will be able to ask and find answers more easily via the forum, and the devs will be able to focus more easily on building vLLM via GitHub. I hope this explanation helps!

How is a forum even better? That requires an extra account.

I'm a maintainer in another project, you get notifications when discussions are created.

Exactly! I hate people making my life difficult for no sensible reason.

You're not that important in Apr 2025 for me, I'll just use something else that works especially if it's better, is faster and has bigger context length that actually is respected, not some fake extension bs.