Yes, and most projects should: Discord’s GitHub webhook for your own repository’s events, and FishOut for mentions in everyone else’s. Use separate channels so the two are not confused.

Does it see GitHub Discussions?

No. FishOut searches public issues and pull requests through GitHub’s issue search; Discussions are not collected today. The sample here is an issue.

Who needs to set it up?

Anyone with Manage Webhooks on the Discord server. Nothing is needed on the GitHub side, because FishOut reads public GitHub rather than receiving events.

Yes. GitHub is checked hourly on every plan, and Discord alerts are on Free.

Integrations DiscordGitHub

GitHub mentions in Discord, from anyone’s repo

Discord has a built-in GitHub webhook, and it is good at what it does: events from a repository you administer. The questions your community wants to see happen elsewhere — someone asking for a lighter alternative to a competitor, a project adding support for yours. FishOut finds those and posts them to the same kind of webhook.

Start free The Discord guide

GitHub search runs hourly, Free included. Discord alerts are on every plan.

[01] WHAT ARRIVES/ DISCORD MESSAGE

A GitHub post, in Discord

A homelab issue asking for a self-hostable alternative to a competitor: the kind of thread a community member can answer first.

#signal · Engineering

FishOutAPPnow

Relevant mention on GitHub

Is there a lighter alternative to Notchmail we can self-host?

Relevance 88 · Competitor · Neutral · by vdk-ops

Labels: Asking for recommendations, Question

Open in FishOutView on GitHub

[02] WHAT GETS FILTERED/ NOISE

What never reaches Discord

2 GitHub matches that go to Filtered instead, each with its reason.

Filtered · GitHub

Pull request · botGitHub

chore(deps): update notchmail-client to v8

Filtered · Off-brief

Renovate and Dependabot mention package names hundreds of times a week.

Issue · translationsGitHub

Translate “acme mail settings” into Polish

Filtered · Different meaning

A string that happens to contain your words.

[03] KEYWORDS THAT WORK HERE/ GITHUB

For GitHub, into Discord

More keyword shapes are on monitoring GitHub.

Your project name plus “self-host” or “docker”

Discord communities around open-source tools care most about how people run them.

Competitor names, exact

An issue that names a competitor’s limitation is a thread your community will want to answer.

A floor of 75

Community channels reward restraint: 75 keeps the feed to issues worth a contributor’s time.

Settings · Notifications

Discord

GitHub → a channel

Healthy

Relevance floor75

Eventsmention.scored

Batch bursts5 min

[04] SET IT UP/ 4 STEPS

Four steps, about five minutes

GitHub into Discord, start to finish.

1
Create a webhook in your server
Walkthrough on the Discord guide.
2
Paste it under Settings → Notifications → Discord
Then send a test.
3
Add GitHub keywords under Keywords
Start with: Your project name plus “self-host” or “docker”.
4
Floor 75, mention.scored
Batching stays on.

Not the /github endpoint

Discord’s GitHub-compatible endpoint is the webhook URL with /github on the end, for repository events. FishOut uses the plain webhook URL, without the suffix.

paste this, not …/github

https://discord.com/api/webhooks/<id>/<token>

[05] A BUSY DAY/ DIGEST

When GitHub gets loud

A popular repository adding your project as an integration brings a run of linked issues and pull requests. One embed listing the five most relevant is easier for a community to follow than five separate posts.

#signal · Engineering · 5-min digest

FishOutAPP+5m

3 new mentions for AcmeMail

Docker image for an AcmeMail-compatible relay · GitHub · 87
Lightweight shared inbox for homelab users? · GitHub · 82
Add Notchmail to the list of supported backends · GitHub · 71

Open these in FishOut

[06] THE RECIPE YOU WOULD OTHERWISE BUILD/ DIY

Discord’s GitHub-compatible webhook

You add the webhook URL with /github appended as a repository webhook, and Discord posts that repository’s events: issues, comments, pull requests, pushes, releases.