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My favourite fad of the last few decades is: sorting. You know because in Github you can't even sort your list of repositories.
HTML cant even sort
It sort of can with the Flexbox order property.
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#252I’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…
Never had any "fun" with github either. I have had my account since 2013 and I've just learned about this "trending page" thing. Can anyone explain what's it useful for?
I find github search to be immensely useful. Filter by file extension and you can pretty much search the open source world for some API in a language.
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#253>> No offense to Stripe, but the notion that stripe-samples/subscriptions, which has 13 total stars with exactly zero new stars today is the new JavaScript “hotness” is a joke. This is totally useless to everyone. THIS. The new algorithm is not only horrendous but SUPER FLAWED! Here is what happened. After receiving 900+ stars within a week of launch - we never make it to 'Trending' weekly or monthly!! We were their…
> Stars not only tell how cool a open source project is but also makes the new open source developers produce valuable work without next to nothing in return.
Stars aren’t payment. If that is the primary currency for your development I am curious what happens when there are no new stars? Do you kill the repo?
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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.
> 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" :)
I dunno, that seems odd. Do you not want to know about bugs in your project to make it better? I realize people will submit a bug b/c they can't figure out how to implement something but that is worth being aware of real bugs in the code.
Now if you could "tax" the "+1" spam culture, I'd be all aboard that
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#255I never used the trending page. I'm a find-by-search user. I just want relevant stuff when I need it.
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#256I learned so many things from the trending page back in early days. A lot of useful stuff was there. Now, it is not.
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#257I believe the turning point was when they changed how the ranking system on the Trending page worked. I had no idea Github had a "trending" mechanism. I just use it as a free place to store code repositories, of which I have about 20. About the only social feature of Github I use is "Issues", to report or deal with bugs. In fact, I rarely visit the site with a browser. Most usage is from "git". Which is what it's sup…
>I had no idea Github had a "trending" mechanism. Sounds like this article doesn't apply to you then. >Which is what it's supposed to be for. That's just your opinion. Clearly people have been using github for discovering new software and more. I have found plenty of cool projects through the sites features.
I use Github for discovering new software, and more. And a trending algorithm is of no use to me. I use search and filter based on practically applicable keywords and other facets that are relevant to my need at the time.
The author uses the phrase `the new JavaScript “hotness”` in the context of this somehow being a positive. Engineers going after libraries because of their "hotness" instead of because of their utility is exactly the problem with the Javascript (and other "cool" / "trending") ecosystems.
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#258>I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub.I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work. >project chat IRC/Slack/Discord already exist >or even DMs A new avenue for recruiter spam? No thank you.
Agreed. HN and reddit are way better at helping me find repos that are relevant to my skill set and interest. It’s like the author doesn’t even try to utilize these other social spaces that have already largely solved this problem. Sometimes I come across people whose idea of a perfect world is an app that knows exactly what to show them and when without any curiosity or effort, and it blows my mind. That is my hell.
I find HN and Reddit largely useless for finding new and interesting code.
The Reddit python subreddit is truly awful - it's just beginners sharing their first projects.
Whereas HN is largely biased to what's extremely popular and/or "cool".
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#259I've sworn off Github for my own toy projects. The code I write off the clock is a form of escapism, I don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity, nor do I want to triage issues from people taking issue with how I've named things, or forcing me to adopt an ultimately meaningless boilerplate CoC. I don't want to have to write a novel on why I'm not a racist or a fascist like Antirez recently had to.
I'm not implying that I would face all of these issues on Github currently. But I don't want to run the risk of being in that position and getting into a shouting match with someone - and then having to deal with all of the consequences.
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#260The javascript ecosystem is great (choice is mostly a good thing) but it has a really bad rep because of all of this nonsense focus on early-adoption of "cool new thing". That kind of problem is only exacerbated by `Trending` features like this. Good riddance.