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GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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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.

Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.

Also, did they rewrite in Rust already?

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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What do you use then? Gitlab? Personal servers?

There's also sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/

I've really been digging sourcehut recently, I really like that its just a dumb git+ssh receptacle with some modern build pipelines attached.

Feels like early gitlab but even more craigslisty.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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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.

I disagree with the parent that they're poorly integrated. They're probably better-integrated than most other options out there. IMO the real problem with Atlassian products is that individually they are not good. Confluence is a bad wiki, Jira is a bad issue/project tracker, Bitbucket is a bad source code management tool. Individually they all have a lot of flaws to the point that if they only existed on their own,…

> I disagree with the parent that they're poorly integrated. They're probably better-integrated than most other options out there. IMO the real problem with Atlassian products is that individually they are not good. Confluence is a bad wiki, Jira is a bad issue/project tracker, Bitbucket is a bad source code management tool.

Fair enough, I agree - they are not that poorly integrated as they are just really poor tools.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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post #295

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The master and slave debate was dumb, and reflects a creeping of political correctness into coding and software over the years that I do not look forward to. React’s keywords have been similarly attacked for promoting a “bro” culture with use of words like props or mount. And man-in-the-middle attacks are increasingly being described as person-in-the-middle, at the expense of alliteration. So many other examples out…

It speaks of privilege to think having a debate on this is dumb. It's literally how human beings reconcile issues. You want to outright refuse the possibility that this is an issue to begin with. If you want to keep using your colonialism-inspired language, go ahead and ignore the critics (surely you can't believe github is going to ban you over it) but do not complain about this criticism existing because it makes y…

No, making this a problem of racism speaks of privilege. A lot of privilege actually and a solid amount of detachment.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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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…

Or, you know, you could just not name your things master/slave and outright mention you do not take contributions if you do not care about doing that right either?

next would be the red-black trees or some utter nonsense.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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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…

The master and slave debate was dumb, and reflects a creeping of political correctness into coding and software over the years that I do not look forward to. React’s keywords have been similarly attacked for promoting a “bro” culture with use of words like props or mount. And man-in-the-middle attacks are increasingly being described as person-in-the-middle, at the expense of alliteration. So many other examples out…

> bro culture...props and mount

who has made this accusation?

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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I never used the old trending page, but it sounds like the Changelog Nightly newsletter [1] is basically the same thing. It goes out every day at 9PM Pacific. It has 3 sections:

- most starred repositories that haven't been in the newsletter before

- most starred repositories that were created that day

- most starred repositories

1: https://changelog.com/nightly

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Assuming that we're talking about the same thing, this is possible in GH from the `Files` tab on the PR screen.

Not really. You cannot comment on the commit message itself. And, if I'm not mistaken, changes made in one commit that are undone in a subsequent commit won't show up even if the files view if filtered by commit. Also, it's difficult to tell which comment is associated with which commit.

I don't think I ever factor in commit messages into my code reviews. I may look at the commit history if I want to see how they experimented implementing the feature, but I only care about the end goal and the code I will be merging in at the end.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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This reads like satire on the culture of trend-chasing, framework-of-the-week young developers that dominate in certain circles. Life imitates The Onion, Poe's law and all that. If you're not one of them, and feel alone and outdated - don't. There's enough graybeards toiling away at the boring software that supports the world, oblivious of what killed last week's React killer. This too shall pass.

It’s really fascinating how humanity can twist almost everything around and start seeing it from a bad perspective. Maybe the author is a very engaged developer who already knows a huge part of the “boring software that supports the world”? Maybe he is so engaged that he wants to follow new developments in his professional area to get even better? Maybe he hopes that he will discover new and interesting algorithms th…

I see it exactly as the opposite. Github is a boring and effective tool for professionals, and the author has twisted it around to be a bad thing since it’s not “fun”.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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> The old Trending algorithm was definitely flawed, but it was simple, objective, and ever so slightly ruthless. It heavily skewed toward JavaScript and web development, but under-indexed a lot of backend and AI stuff.

Isn't that super contradictory? How is the old algorithm both objective AND skewed towards Javascript?

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