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Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by gitmagic »

StavrosK wrote: post #18
danielrw7 wrote: post #3

It took me a while to figure out that there was a second page with no scrollbar and a non-obvious arrow.

Oh, there's a second page! Thanks for that.

I just made the arrow a little larger, might not be enough but it's a start. Later I would like to move to a more traditional site.

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by detaro »

michaelmior wrote: post #6

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. AFAICT, there's nothing to try yet.

> For example, blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.

indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by StavrosK »

gitmagic wrote: post #21
StavrosK wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, there's a second page! Thanks for that.

I just made the arrow a little larger, might not be enough but it's a start. Later I would like to move to a more traditional site.

Hmm, which arrow? I don't see one.

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by gitmagic »

StavrosK wrote: post #19
gitmagic wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad to hear that you get our message! The 'magic' branding is there because everything is done automatically (i.e. it's a cloud service) without the need to install anything on the client side. And we love magic ;)

It's a cloud service? I'm probably missing something, but it looks like a smallish git linter script? I guess I'm not seeing where all the work went to make this something more than an OSS script one could write in two hours.

Yes, I will look into how to make that a bit more clear :) This is integrating with GitHubs build checks and web hooks and we want it to be very easy to get started. A script could do local validation but that would require the contributor to actually run the script :P

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by dkubb »

danielrw7 wrote: post #3

It took me a while to figure out that there was a second page with no scrollbar and a non-obvious arrow.

I saw this comment and then started looking for a link to a second page. It turns out I was able to "swipe up" on my magic mouse to scroll down to the second page.

I'd strongly recommend that the developer stop hiding the scrollbar.

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by gitmagic »

cobrabyte wrote: post #17
gitmagic wrote: post #2

Tired of all the GitHub drama? We're close to launching GitMagic to fix some of that. If you have any questions, please ask, we’re happy to answer them :) And all feedback are appreciated.

Any plans to have a tie-in for GitLab repos, as well?

Our plans is to begin with GitHub support only, since it is (at the moment at least...) the most popular service. But later we plan to support both GitLab and Bitbucket too.

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by unfunco »

gitmagic wrote: post #10
l-p wrote: post #7

Please don't interfere with the native scrolling behavior.

I usually don't like forced scroll myself, but I have to say that I'm personally satisfied with the results of this site. But I hear you and when the site goes from landing page to real website we will make sure to have a nice scroll experience for everyone :)

A "nice scroll experience" is no scroll experience, don't even think about the scrollbar, it's the concern of the browser.

Good design is unobtrusive. [5]

Good design is as little design as possible. [10]

[5, 10]: https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by andyfleming »

l-p wrote: post #7

Please don't interfere with the native scrolling behavior.

I agree and disagree. As a general rule, you shouldn't be screwing with the scrolling behavior, but in case like this (with a slider-type of interaction), it is a bit more understandable. What I can't stand is when people do it just to affect the acceleration/whatever of scrolling as a gimmick. This has some usefulness at least and doesn't affect my experience negatively at all.

Re: Show HN: GitMagic – Enforce your GitHub contribution guidelines

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Post by dkubb »

My main feature request would be a way to enforce a PR must be a fast-forward merge.

I tend to have a small set of words I prefix each git commit summary with (Add, Remove, Fix, etc). If I could verify summaries match that pattern that would be awesome.

Also, if it is possible to enforce the guidelines specified in http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... I'd be so happy.

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