TIL. GitHub has/had a trending page.
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#152The old trending algorithm was too easy to game. Just get a bunch of friends to Star your repo and you star theirs and you both show up.
The current method is worse but seems less gameable.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#153The old trending algorithm was too easy to game. Just get a bunch of friends to Star your repo and you star theirs and you both show up. The current method is worse but seems less gameable.
“A bunch of friends” being about a thousand. Not that easy.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#154If anybody ever thought of fun while using git, I would probably think that that person is a masochist. It's a tool for work. It's actually a shame that git won over all the other DVS, because I used to find mercurial much more approachable and a lot easier to use. Mercurial maybe could be called fun, but definitely not git.
It’s about GitHub, the platform, not git the VCS.
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#155I had no idea that GitHub was supposed to (or trying to be) fun.
If you're going to non-curated "trending" feeds looking for things that are already popular to pay attention to, you're not only wasting your finite free time but you're training yourself to be a follower.
Stop this nonsense immediately. Use your talents and build something great. If you never check the "trending" page on GitHub again, you will have a better life.
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#156I have used github for years and I have never even realized there was a system of trends/top lists. To me, Github is Amazon S3 for source code and issues!
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#157The old trending algorithm was too easy to game. Just get a bunch of friends to Star your repo and you star theirs and you both show up. The current method is worse but seems less gameable.
“A bunch of friends” being about a thousand. Not that easy.
Well back in the day it didn’t take nearly that many.
Nowadays you’d have to do a mailing list.
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#158I’ve never considered GitHub to be “fun.” It’s a great tool , though. Most of my GH interaction is through my desktop system, not a browser (pushing and pulling checkouts). I’ve been using some form of source control for nearly 30 years (since Projector, in the 1990s). It’s a tool. A very, very important tool. I appreciate many of the “glossy” features of GH, like hero images and GH Pages, but this shows how “out of…
Same here, it is just a place to dump a couple of stuff I very seldom work on, as means to provide something to HR.
I also interact mostly via desktop tools.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but why?
For starters, it's not owned by a gigagroup
Perhaps a relevant comparison here is Pinboard.
It's a paid subscription website and has done very well as a one-man-army project. Its success hasn't compromised its virtues of being lightweight and no-nonsense (unlike Delicious).
If SourceHut could do the same for Git that would be great.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#160GitHub'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 pande…
> What will GitHub's replacement "cool" service be? Hopefully this will be ForgeFed [0] standards support, allowing forges such as github, github, gitea, sourcehut, notabug, etc. to interoperate via ActivityPub-based federation. ForgeFed opens walled gardens and allows anyone to interact with any repo with a single account regardless on where it resides. It is still in early development stage, but received funding fr…
Will have to check this out :)
But is GitHub big enough they can just ignore it and go "bah we're too big now to care about others"?