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GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by floatingatoll »

GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance.

I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself.

Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pandemic. It promptly was given significant attention, reasons were found to declare it "uncool", and Jitsi was elevated as the next "cool" replacement.

This article confirms that GitHub is now exiting the early adopter phase. Significant attention is being paid to it, reasons are being found to declare it "uncool" — but, no replacement has yet been elevated as the next "cool" replacement for it.

What will GitHub's replacement "cool" service be?

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by throwaway8941 »

tzs wrote: post #55
nikanj wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.

Before adding the newest fad features, maybe the should go back and add old fads that they missed. One big fad from 50+ years ago that I'd welcome is folders. I don't want to just have all my repositories appear in a flat list ordered by time since last update. I want to make folders so I can organize repositories by topic--just like I have my repositories organized in my computer.

JFYI, they have those in gitlab.

Here's an example.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by threeseed »

tzs wrote: post #55
nikanj wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.

Before adding the newest fad features, maybe the should go back and add old fads that they missed. One big fad from 50+ years ago that I'd welcome is folders. I don't want to just have all my repositories appear in a flat list ordered by time since last update. I want to make folders so I can organize repositories by topic--just like I have my repositories organized in my computer.

My favourite fad of the last few decades is: sorting.

You know because in Github you can't even sort your list of repositories.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by [deleted] »

nikanj wrote: post #44
root_axis wrote: post #18

Hard 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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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by ivanhoe »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #23

Probably it's because of not actually caring that much for things that are fun anyway, but why would I want my version control system to be fun? Does this guy complain that his hammer fails to entertain him when pounding nails?

Well, if we're going with tool analogies, you probably would complain if your tool box is such that you have no idea what tools are crammed inside. Github has grown huge and it's getting increasingly hard to keep track of repos. You see something useful, but in a few months when you need it you just can't find it anymore. Stars are completely useless way of bookmarking interesting code once you star more than a few dozens repos.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by onion2k »

vsroy wrote: post #58

I see a lot of disagreement with this post but I think it makes good points. It's hard for small developers who make useful things to get noticed on GitHub. The only hope is to get retweeted by some established user. This seems silly, we need better ways of making sure people can find/discover good software.

For many people Github is a tool to use for work and nothing more. For others it's almost a social network. Making something that happily straddles both those use cases must be really difficult.
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