Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

Post by booruguru » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 5:23 PM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #60

codebeaker wrote: post #26

I'd like to call out for the author of this that you are in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines: > ## Naming projects and products > Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names. (Reference: https://github.com/logos ) Edit: Why the downvotes? It's valid, and if someone had used my company name in their unauthorized, misleading and…

I wish GitHub would crack down harder on sites that do this. This site, and a lot of the other sites that use GitHub APIs and data are clearly trying to blur the boundary between whether they're part of GitHub or not, and it's incredibly annoying. I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll p…

Post by eridius » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

angersock wrote: post #61

codebeaker wrote: post #26

I'd like to call out for the author of this that you are in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines: > ## Naming projects and products > Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names. (Reference: https://github.com/logos ) Edit: Why the downvotes? It's valid, and if someone had used my company name in their unauthorized, misleading and…

Downvoted because "wah wah wah branding guidelines wah wah wah". I thought this was hacker news, not crybaby news. Seriously, though--it's awards for rankings, based on github . I think that the "github-awards" domain name is rather descriptive. What, you'd prefer some other nonsense like "rank.ly" or some other damn fool thing? EDIT: The fact that the parent post is the top comment on this thread is saddening. Not "…

Post by jmhobbs » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 6:01 PM UTC

mholt wrote: post #46

jrochkind1 wrote: post #31

It told me it coudln't identify my city from my github account. Indeed, i did not have "location" field filled out in my github profile. I went and filled it out. But it still says it cant' identify my city. Caching? Which hopefully will be refreshed at some point? Or do I need to fill out my location in a way other than I have?

Same problem here. I filled out my city just as other developers who show up for my city have done but it still says "We couldn't find your city from your location on github :("

Post by jlarocco » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 6:07 PM UTC

booruguru wrote: post #62

jlarocco wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish GitHub would crack down harder on sites that do this. This site, and a lot of the other sites that use GitHub APIs and data are clearly trying to blur the boundary between whether they're part of GitHub or not, and it's incredibly annoying. I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll p…

> I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll probably migrate to BitBucket at some point. What on earth are you talking about? If you don't care care about your ranking, nobody is forcing you to care. (Yet, you might switch to a rival platform because...?)

Post by Karunamon » Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 6:23 PM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #68

booruguru wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll probably migrate to BitBucket at some point. What on earth are you talking about? If you don't care care about your ranking, nobody is forcing you to care. (Yet, you might switch to a rival platform because...?)

It's pretty obvious really. The sites are a distraction I don't want, and they're a distraction I wouldn't have with BitBucket. Yes, in this case it's just a stupid ranking, but in the past there have been more serious fakes, where GitHub has had to step in and tell people a site isn't related to them.