Does anyone other than the author use these features? I didn't even know they existed.
To me, and I'd guess to most people, Github is just a place to host git repositories, nothing else.
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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#32Hard pass on the suggestion to add more social network features. Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety, we need less of that not more.
you don't like github drama? (https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama)
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#33>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
There's a discussion feature on beta (see https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions for example)
I'd definitely like this to become public soon
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#34> I always thought of it as the defacto front page of the open source movement.
It's a proprietary site!
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#35cripes. It's a code repository, it doesn't have to be fun.
The reasoning in this blog post is why the web is full of anxiety-inducing anxiety
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#36GitHub has slowly phased away from being a website about the code, to being a website about people. Yes, people are an aspect of the code, however the site is no longer focusing solely on collaboration tools for working with code.
Author is correct, the "trending" now rendered on GitHub is a joke.
But what is worse is the "Explore" screen they put in. All I get given is a bunch of useless crap in a column that is 580 pixels wide. Half of the projects that appear in here are in chinese so I can't understand anything about them except the project title. The entire UX of this screen feels like a social network.
Bonus points: Another, stupid, pointless feature they added a while back: "[emoji] Set status".
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#37Hard pass on the suggestion to add more social network features. Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety, we need less of that not more.
maybe we can just wait until they decided to provide both suggested timeline and linear timeline, like twitter.
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#38A major reason open source projects use GitHub is the social network features. It really helps you build traction and get noticed. Regardless of what you may think of it the trending page does indeed drive further traffic which drives adoption. Otherwise we'd all still be on SourceForge or migrate to something more OSS pure like Gitlab.
We don't all migrate to gitlab mainly because Github's UI is better and because of network effects. Nothing to do with social features.
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#39Huh, TIL that GitHub has a trending page. I have a few projects with a few thousand stars, but have literally never seen this thing. The choices on the trending page do seem weird, and kind of useless.
I remember seeing all the spammy garbage during Hacktoberfest, but apart from that it's a pretty random selection of repositories
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#40Was github ever fun? It’s a tool, not a toy. I don’t expect my IDE to be fun either, I expect it to accomplish a task for me.