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I am happy with GitHub just being a repository for code. For cool project discovery I generally use HN or reddit. My stars mostly acts as bookmarks for projects I found interesting at some time in the past. I want a reliable, boring GitHub. I will look somewhere else for fun.
I don't think I've ever used the trending page in my 12 years of using GitHub.
>I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub.I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work. >project chat IRC/Slack/Discord already exist >or even DMs A new avenue for recruiter spam? No thank you.
Sometimes I come across people whose idea of a perfect world is an app that knows exactly what to show them and when without any curiosity or effort, and it blows my mind. That is my hell.
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> This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work. A-men.
I recently set up a LinkedIn profile after avoiding them for many years, and was horrified to discover that there's now a "Facebook wall" feature, replete with all the horrible political conversations that made me abandon Facebook. It's totally in-your-face, too; it's the default home page and the default Android app page. I don't want to see what people I've connected on LinkedIn have to say about, well, anything. I…
There is absolutely nothing of value on LinkedIn for the average person beyond being a place to host your resume for discovery.
>I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub.I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work. >project chat IRC/Slack/Discord already exist >or even DMs A new avenue for recruiter spam? No thank you.
> IRC/Slack/Discord already exist
Or even closer: gitter! Or just set up an irc/matrix room for your project.
This works well in two senses:
1. We went from a flawed meritocracy (GitHub) to a social network that promotes chaos, tribalism, and idea bubbles (Twitter).
2. GitHub went from a flawed meritocracy to a social network that promotes chaos, tribalism, and idea bubbles (CoCs, them-vs-us narratives, a priori victimization, non-universal notions of "inclusiveness", "master branches").
Most stars in 24 hours? That gets the same group of 0.1% consistently at the top leading to a stale page.
So Github tried to improve its 'signaling' of what's interesting yet new so you can keep coming back to the trending page?
Is it stars the overall account crossed w/ new? Number of issues opened in 24 hours? Forks?
For me stars on GitHub were me sort of bookmarking things I didn't use and.... probably wouldn't look at ever again? Thus I always felt a little weird about the hype around the number of stars.