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Re: Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

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Post by nusl »

michidk wrote: post #41
nusl wrote: post #19

Why not allow it to be self-hosted or make it a browser extension? Seems cool but I am not gonna trust a random tool with this level of access.

Is there any reason you could not self-host it?

Perhaps I missed the information on their website that details how to do this.

Re: Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

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Post by bekacru »

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #25
bkolobara wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just noticed that you can uncheck permissions before you clicking continue with GitHub, to reduce the scope.

Write access to public repos is not optional?? As well as full read and write user data?? Flee, far.

You can use PAT

Re: Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

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Post by ezekg »

I think you'd have a better reaction if you allowed some public repos to be viewed before handing over the keys to the castle, so to speak. Even better would be allowing a public repo to preview itself via better-hub.com/{org}/{repo} would be slick. Expensive for you, but might help onboarding. As it stands, the call to action is poor, so unfortunately there's no way I'm going to login with GitHub and give a bunch of permissions to a new app posted on HN, no matter who built it.

Re: Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

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Post by sceptic123 »

figmert wrote: post #29
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #6

The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me. The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better. I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and…

> It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me. Yes, and including admin access to all your orgs :)

But it's okay because

> Your access token is encrypted and stored securely. Only the permissions you grant will be used.

Re: Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

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Post by lloydatkinson »

robtherobber wrote: post #35
nik736 wrote: post #3

No lightmode?

I will never use dark mode if I can avoid it. The idea that it's somehow better is a bit shady [0][1] (save for mobile devices where arguably it may help save some energy), but I absolutely understand that it can be a personal preference. Multiple discussions already exist on HN on this topic, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664079 [0] https://simplyexplained.com/videos/why-dark-mode-makes-you-s..…

Thanks for sharing my article :)
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