"It heavily skewed toward JavaScript and web development, but under-indexed a lot of backend and AI stuff.
And yet, it was cool as hell that everyone was on the EXACT same playing field and scoreboard."
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GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
TBF, I don't think the author is saying that Github needs to be fun, but rather that it used to be and now isn't. It's lost a nice quality that it had.
having a hard time understanding what the author is saying. i never considered github to be a place to have fun at. and i am surprised by this article and curious how other people see or use github... by the way, the trending page is not everything about github! i keep discovering and bookmarking github projects every now and then. for example, this repository where the author has implementations for trigonometry fun…
I don't use trending often enough to know that I'm correct in saying this, but I get the impression that the author is describing a shift from "most star-ed projects each day" to some new algorithm which seems to resemble "most interesting projects as of late", with the later being less dynamic. I suppose that's in part why they feel less excitement and less value in the tool.
I agree that a lot of the recent changes to GH have been really cool. This article sort of makes me wish that features like the trending page were more configurable.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think this is specifically a 'western society' thing? Browse Japanese sites and online tools and there is just as much gamification and 'thrilling' graphics and animation - if not more. Github looks like a technical white-paper in comparison.
Do you not consider Japanese to be Western? I mean, America literally rebuilt the moral, ethical, and political environment after dropping the bomb.
I don't understand why I'm getting downvoted. Is what I am saying incorrect?
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#374Imo, Github has only been moving further in the right direction lately — and more social features ain't it, chief.
The better value proposition lift from giving folks and teams more free private repos was huge, and the increasingly-prominent integration of Github into enterprise tools is facilitating (if not helping to force) the modernization of enterprise dev outside the software industry.
I've never been a bigger fan of Github, personally. Microsoft seems to be doing the same with Github that it did with Minecraft: amplifying what it does well, fixing what it didn't, and making it more accessible to more folks the way they want to consume it — all while not compromising what made it great to begin with.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
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GitHub stars suffer from the same problem as likes on Twitter or Facebook. A social network would actually need three separate kinds of positive interactions: - a like ("I want to let the creator know I like this.") - a share ("I want my followers to know about this.") - a bookmark ("I want to be able to find this again later.") Most social networks only have the first two. GitHub, even worse, only has one. (I person…
Yes, exactly. I'm more likely to star a small project that I find interesting even if flawed because I don't want to lose track of it. I don't really understand why I would need or want to star React or Nodejs for example. There is zero chance I lose track of those projects.
For me, this is a positive thing. With this, I can find some niche things that I can't find otherwise. People star it because it provides some value to them.
I wouldn't "like" project that are broken or half done, but I star it if it can solve my problem.
On the other side, when somebody stars my project I will invest more energy into it because I see that it is useful to somebody else, not just me. Most of my projects are sparsely tested, because usually I'm the only user and it is not mission-critical. When it's broken I usually know where. When I see starts appearing on my project I add more tests and handle edge cases better, so new users have a better experience. If they would only bookmark it, I wouldn't know if somebody wants to use my software. And they would also have a bad experience, and maybe drop it after evaluating as a piece of crap.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, exactly. I'm more likely to star a small project that I find interesting even if flawed because I don't want to lose track of it. I don't really understand why I would need or want to star React or Nodejs for example. There is zero chance I lose track of those projects.
For me, this is a positive thing. With this, I can find some niche things that I can't find otherwise. People star it because it provides some value to them. I wouldn't "like" project that are broken or half done, but I star it if it can solve my problem. On the other side, when somebody stars my project I will invest more energy into it because I see that it is useful to somebody else, not just me. Most of my projec…
I agree.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#377Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the debate on language is part of a greater discussion in the field as to the fact that software development and other tech fields are disproportionate in its representation, whether or not it’s a problem, and how to resolve it. These sorts of addresses approaches in language are an easy and immediate signal, like switching from language like policeman, postman, etc. Arguably it is much harder and will face m…
I agree with your point. Engineers love to use signaling as a tool to prove points, yet are conveniently saying signaling doesn’t matter here. It’s signaling that prejudice and racism matter.
Yes, I think that it is an easy signal that Microsoft (and GitHub) believes racism and prejudice is worth an adjustment in language. It’s much harder to actually perform systemic changes and I’m sure people would do plenty of gnashing of teeth about any significant movement, such as if Microsoft had grants only available to BIPOC (black/indigenous people of color, who have unique hardships in discriminatory systems in America compared with Indian or East Asian people who have and continue to face discrimination but they do not largely have existing government sanctioned forces to disenfranchise them from their birth to their death.)
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#379Well, Microsoft has never made any acquisition look good. It's not something they're known for.
The trending/discover algorithm changed before Microsoft iirc.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think this is specifically a 'western society' thing? Browse Japanese sites and online tools and there is just as much gamification and 'thrilling' graphics and animation - if not more. Github looks like a technical white-paper in comparison.
Do you not consider Japanese to be Western? I mean, America literally rebuilt the moral, ethical, and political environment after dropping the bomb.
Have you ever been to Japan?