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Re: GitHub Community Forum

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Post by tarr11 »

I looked at this for a while, but I'm not sure I understand what is going on here.

Is this a Stackoverflow competitor or just some sort of watercooler to talk about Github in general?

Feels a little bit random to me.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#3

Post by xnxn »

tarr11 wrote: post #2

I looked at this for a while, but I'm not sure I understand what is going on here. Is this a Stackoverflow competitor or just some sort of watercooler to talk about Github in general? Feels a little bit random to me.

It's a watercooler, yeah.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#4

Post by Operyl »

Ehhhh, so, like. GitHub is big on open source stuff, supposedly. Love that they went with lithium stuff instead of some of the more open source solutions that could've used the manpower from GitHub.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#5

Post by always_good »

It links a great deal to Github on its homepage, yet none of the Github links mention it or link back to it. My first impression was that someone was trying to bootstrap a forum by looking to look official.

I suppose it's just not launched yet. Else you'd at least expect a blog post.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#6

Post by chrismorgan »

always_good wrote: post #5

It links a great deal to Github on its homepage, yet none of the Github links mention it or link back to it. My first impression was that someone was trying to bootstrap a forum by looking to look official. I suppose it's just not launched yet. Else you'd at least expect a blog post.

The registrant details in the whois are GitHub’s, and the name servers match. Seems likely to be genuine.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#7

Post by Cthulhu_ »

always_good wrote: post #5

It links a great deal to Github on its homepage, yet none of the Github links mention it or link back to it. My first impression was that someone was trying to bootstrap a forum by looking to look official. I suppose it's just not launched yet. Else you'd at least expect a blog post.

I think they'd launch it on one of the upcoming Constellation events, given how that's pretty prominent on the home page.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#8

Post by superplussed »

Man, the design of this is so unpolished that I actually find it a bit stressful to look at. The lack of grid adherence, the strange hierarchy of font sizes, it doesn't seem up to Github's normal high standards of clean and sensible design choices. But then I guess it's new and they'll refine it.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#9

Post by oneeyedpigeon »

chrismorgan wrote: post #6
always_good wrote: post #5

It links a great deal to Github on its homepage, yet none of the Github links mention it or link back to it. My first impression was that someone was trying to bootstrap a forum by looking to look official. I suppose it's just not launched yet. Else you'd at least expect a blog post.

The registrant details in the whois are GitHub’s, and the name servers match. Seems likely to be genuine.

I hope so, clicking on 'sign in' logged me into my github account with no further action. Does anyone know how they did that?

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#10

Post by zichy »

superplussed wrote: post #8

Man, the design of this is so unpolished that I actually find it a bit stressful to look at. The lack of grid adherence, the strange hierarchy of font sizes, it doesn't seem up to Github's normal high standards of clean and sensible design choices. But then I guess it's new and they'll refine it.

I like the topic lists and threads, but the front page is just horrible. No idea what's going on there.
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