Well, Microsoft has never made any acquisition look good. It's not something they're known for.
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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#42Hard 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 )
They never implied there was no drama, only that they didn’t want any more.
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#43Hard 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.
I hate to say that I actually like that idea. I'm swamped in random notifications for weird parts of the repo I don't care about. I'd really like a "high # of comments and reactions/loc changes" feed.
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#44Hard 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.
Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.
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#45The OP is hitting at a long lived really difficult problem especially for a place like GitHub - how do you display what people care about? - recommendation engine 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 acco…
You’re assuming that Github needs to provide a means for recommendations like a typical social network when I doubt it does.
I return to github repeatedly to interact with repos I’ve already found based on professional need. I neither want Github to recommend content to me, nor do I need it to; I regularly use services outside of GitHub to find content on it that’s relevant to my needs.
Github is a tool, not a social network. I don’t want them to maximize for “engagement”; I want them to fill my professional requirements and charge me a fee for their services.
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#46Hard 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.
> Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety
Great point. I haven't used a social network yet that didn't result in me becoming at least a little addicted at one point or another. In high school, I was constantly on Twitter, seeking the dopamine rush from those likes and retweets. Getting out of there has done wonders for my personal life.
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#47Every day now I see one, a comment, a blog post, something that reminds me of the words of Charles Babbage:
> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Babbage was talking specifically about Members of Parliament asking him whether putting wrong figures into his machine would result in the correct answers, but I find the remark generally applicable to so much more.
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#48>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
This would make GitHub Issues a bit more clean for sure. Lots of people use it for asking questions/for help instead of reporting actual issues/bugs.
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#49I've discovered some pretty neat projects from the trending page and the "Explore repositories" thing on the main page. So for me that works well unlike most recommendation things.
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#50Was 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.
Why do something especially do something for majority of your life and not make it fun?