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GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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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.

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by sammorrowdrums »

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?

Firstly Bitbucket allowed free personal private repos, so many people who did not actually want to use it did for closed source projects. Bitbucket has generally had the least pleasing UI, and the association with Atlassian sort of corporate feel made it seem uncool to a degree. It just didn't really feel great to use for me. I've used all 3 extensively.

I've transitioned with companies from Github to Gitlab, from Bitbucket to GitHub etc. but never to Bitbucket. In fairness I was using Gitlab during their great outage, so I can say that cool is not always reliable. And coolness fades and dies relatively fast.

But I can't remember Bitbucket ever being cool.

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Post by deanclatworthy »

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.

I didn’t really get the impression here that Jared wanted a social network. He just wanted a better mechanism for discovering good quality and interesting projects. Popularity is often one good signal.

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Post by globular-toast »

atonse wrote: post #5

I don't think I've ever used the trending page in my 12 years of using GitHub.

I've also used Github for 12 years and only recently started to use it. I've discovered a lot of really cool stuff! It's worth it. (Not sure if I ever used it before the algorithm change, though).

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Post by solarkraft »

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?

It's actually open source itself. I was pretty shocked to find out that GitHub isn't (it's the face of open source!).

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by sammorrowdrums »

pjc50 wrote: post #107
random_visitor wrote: post #102

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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.

Yeah, hatred mostly because Jira is the grand enabler of micromanagers and corporate accountability and a bit slow.

It can be whatever people want to use it for. The customisation and the key features of the tool are not bad. Then again, most tools are neutral until a person wields them.

[Edit typo]

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Post by flohofwoe »

Master_Odin wrote: post #117
rusticpenn wrote: post #111

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It has CI/CD integrated( dont remember if they are in the free version).

so does GitHub now, though there are some unfortunate limitations on PRs from forks

IMHO the gitlab CI service makes a lot more sense though, github has this weird concept of "Actions", and running CI/CD/... is some "shortcut" that was added as an afterthought because nobody could figure out how github actions are supposed to work for something simple as "please just run this script after each push".

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by globular-toast »

lrem wrote: post #106
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.

It's for developers. I mostly use it to find libraries, not "apps".
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