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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 rytis »

raxxorrax wrote: post #92
kerng wrote: post #56

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The modern version is tags, but they lack good sorting/viewing for tags

Not wanting to start a discussion about graphs vs trees for organizing, but in my opinion simple folders are great to fulfill basic needs. I cannot imagine a book having no table of contents and just a list of tags with numbers indicating relevant page numbers. That is just dumbing yourself down in favor of machine classification or search algorithms while a simple solution exists for this problem for higher order cl…

Depends on a book type I suppose. Most have "index" section, which is just a list of tags. In recipe books I find it more useful than ToC actually.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by random_visitor »

jaekash wrote: post #93
blueflow wrote: post #80

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Projects are settting up individual cgit, Gitlab or Bitbucket instances. Roughly half of the projects i contributed to now have their primary upstream outside from Github.

Well on a scale of coolness Bitbucket hits rock bottom, just like all things from Atlassian.

No offence, but as someone who has only ever used github and gitlab, can you clarify why it's uncool?

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by 0x0 »

kwistzhaderach wrote: post #99
Normal_gaussian wrote: post #76

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Me and the rest of the cool gang have been using GitLab for a while now.

What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?

Free unlimited CI minutes for private repos if you bring your own gitlab-runner is one great benefit I enjoy.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by sanxiyn »

radicalriddler wrote: post #54

I stronly agree with the trending part. I used to browse it regularly to find cool projects, that may have been on HN or Product Hunt or something that week, but now, most of it is Chinese projects that are meaningless to me or large businesses latest nothing github project they made.

Chinese projects are presumably meaningful to people who can read Chinese, although it is meaningless to you. You are free to learn Chinese. It is a great skill to have.

If more people who can read Chinese are using GitHub, why is it a wrong choice for GitHub to surface Chinese projects in the trending page? I detect the racist attitude here.

Yes, it is a bad recommendation, but the trending page is not personalized. GitHub does provide personalized pages for discovery. Do you get Chinese projects there too? That would be a bug worth fixing. But it is not a bug to have Chinese projects in the trending page. It is expected feature.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by fxtentacle »

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.

Yay! There's one thing I would absolutely love about having a blockchain in GitHub: The transfer fees.

If everyone had to pay $1 to submit an issue and/or a pull request, open source projects would get a lot less "support spam" :)

Also, it would certainly help if people need to wait 10 minutes for their last comment to be accepted into the network before they're allowed to comment again.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by lrem »

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.

Who would search for useful software on Github in the first place? That's what app stores are for. Then, you contribute to whatever you feel is useful to you, using the Github link on the project's page.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by pjc50 »

random_visitor wrote: post #102
jaekash wrote: post #93

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Well on a scale of coolness Bitbucket hits rock bottom, just like all things from Atlassian.

No offence, but as someone who has only ever used github and gitlab, can you clarify why it's uncool?

Probably spillover from hating Jira, the popular-but-bad bug tracker system.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by Kovah »

0x0 wrote: post #103
kwistzhaderach wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?

Free unlimited CI minutes for private repos if you bring your own gitlab-runner is one great benefit I enjoy.

To be fair, you can also have your own runners for Github Actions, which will not affect your CI minutes. https://help.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by teekert »

Yeah, you grow, a platform grows, sometimes you grow into different directions. Move on.

And indeed, I don't need a social aspect, I need to make a branch from an issue, like I can with bitbucket.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

Good, let the people using github for fun leave.

Github is not meant to be fun, it's meant to be like a pen.

A good pen can be enjoyable. Beautiful. You can feel attachement to it.

But it is not built to be played with. By that I mean it's not its primary function, even if a creative or bored mind can use it for that.

A good pen fullfills its intended purpose when it disapears from your mind while you use it, yielding to the writting that should be the center of your attention.

I don't think about github when I code. I just use it.

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