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If 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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Instead it's owned by an abrasive difficult to deal with developer who will argue "you're just doing it wrong" with paying customers. Clearly things aren't exactly roses and sunshine here either.
Example?
Both the original story as well as the comments regarding Andrew's usage for Zig.
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I recently set up a LinkedIn profile after avoiding them for many years, and was horrified to discover that there's now a "Facebook wall" feature, replete with all the horrible political conversations that made me abandon Facebook. It's totally in-your-face, too; it's the default home page and the default Android app page. I don't want to see what people I've connected on LinkedIn have to say about, well, anything. I…
Unless recruiting or sales is part of your job, the best approach to LinkedIn is to set your profile up well, connect with the people you know and then go to Settings & Privacy -> Communications and switch on email notifications for direct messages you receive. Then you'll only ever have to login should you get an email about a message you might be interested in replying to. There is absolutely nothing of value on Li…
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?
You're very clearly confusing the version control system git with the platform for code collaboration github.
The first doesn't have to be fun (and I'd argue shouldn't be fun). The latter, however, can be (maybe even should be). OP can see fun in exploring new technologies, new solutions to problems, new libraries to use - and who are we to judge that? The trending page was an interesting way to see what was cropping up around the platform. I didn't check it often, but I did check it from time to time.
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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.
I get that Jira can be poorly configured, but it's not Lotus Notes bad.
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I work on GH-hosted code every day. My GH profile activity log is solid green. But I have been writing open-source code for twenty years. An open repo site is quite useful for that workflow.
Sorry I didn't intent to mean that you also just dump code there, was actually thinking about the interaction via desktop tools.
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What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?
When I started using it it was free private repos and CI minutes. Whilst GH has duplicated these features very recently, they are still things that are at the core of gitlabs offering, so are generally higher quality and better supported. Gitlab is also open source, which lets me mirror their repo locally in case they die or remove a feature I use. Oh, and gitlab isn't systematically racist, which is always a persona…
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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.
It already does. Other than some (minor) missing features that are in active development, what else do you need?
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.…
And actually it seems that Github just implemented this https://github.com/trending