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GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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PSA: This is not about GH in general, is about a particular characteristic of it (The "trending repos" page) that is even possible a lot of people haven't heard about.

Also, there might be other ways to find out what is "trending" (And you should try to find them).

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Atlassian products is a collection of poorly integrated and maintained applications each with serious issues which Atlassian refuses to fix. Atlassian is basically where things go to die.

If Atlassian products is a collection of poorly integrated what to say about plenty of enterprise solutions? I am yet to find something that works as good as Atlassian products.

Atlassian is better than the enterprise solutions which preceded it, but that is a very, very low bar.

Their tools are remarkably slow, with each page both being remarkably JavaScript-heavy and constantly reloading (the two should be mutually exclusive, right?).

They really aren't bad, and have some advantages, but they are not a joy to use.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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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.

I think it depends on your goal. If I want to browse new chicken recipes, I am going to open the table of contents, find the section on poultry and start flipping through recipes. On the other hand, if I want to cook a chicken curry, I am going to go to the index and look up curry, then find the relevant page.

Folders are great for when you don't know what you want and just want to browse or explore based on broad topics. Tags/indexes are better when you know basically what you want, and you just need a way to find it or items similar to it.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Github is a bit of a social network for developers, and as such, shows all the similarities to other platforms: there are superstars, competition to be on top of some magic list of '10 most beautiful women profiles or 10 most popular JS projects' and etc. And the more people deviate from development towards social interactions,the more Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn it becomes. Oh,look, I have 10 stars on my repo!!! Wait a minute,how come he's got 20??Just look at the way he named variables..Come on,who can vote for this????

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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GitHub isn't fun or not fun for me because of the presence of a Trending page.

I didn't know about the Trending page, so I never considered using it. For my personal developer literacy and understanding of the Open Source Community, it would be great if a global Trending page existed and functioned well.

As an indy developer or a developer who usually works on a very small team, I'd like to see the Trending concept implemented on an Open Source platform basis.

For instance, a Trending in Angular page, a Trending in Bootstrap 4? Hell yes.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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What do you use then? Gitlab? Personal servers?

If you have your own server and need a Github-like webinterface, gogs [0] and Gitea [1] (a fork of gogs) are stable and very easy to set up. I have been running gogs for a few years now. For me it contains the perfect subset of Github features. Previously I just pushed to a bare repo on my server via SSH. [0] https://github.com/gogs/gogs [1] https://gitea.io/en-us/

I currently use bare repos on my server. It might be fun to give them a web interface, thanks for the links.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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I’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…

Tangential: what is up with this inflationary expectation that everything should be "fun" and "exciting" and "thrilling"? I feel like western society as a whole is thinking more and more in terms of a six year old. For adults, there lies incredible satisfaction in mastering any but the most exploitative professions or jobs and fulfilling them dutifully, even if they are be no means "fun".

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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post #259

I'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 fascis…

What's wrong with personal projects on a Free private Github repo? (they offer those now). Previously I would just put my pet projects on Bitbucket because they offered free private repos.

gitlab for me, for the same reasons.
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