Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#2Unsurprising, in my usage of GitHub, I'm usually completely disinterested in what others are doing. Maybe they could occasionally feature really interesting hand-picked projects.
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#3I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page.
For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.
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#4GitHub could never quite decide whether they want to be a social network or not. The "Trending" page (which has been useless for a long time due to the ranking algorithm rewrite several years ago) is just one example of this indecision. The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another, and the ridiculous "achievements" on user pages is yet another. They've also added and removed the "Social Coding" label several times from their front page if memory serves correctly. It's like the whole company is having a neverending identity crisis.
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#5So I guess me checking that page everyday wasn't enough to make a difference. :'(
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#6huh!?? don't they have amplitude to check how many users click that page? I click on that every day to see interesting projects when I'm bored and I have starred so many cool projects from there..
the product people is insane, it's an insane decision
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#7GitHub could never quite decide whether they want to be a social network or not. The "Trending" page (which has been useless for a long time due to the ranking algorithm rewrite several years ago) is just one example of this indecision. The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another, and the ridiculous "achievements" on user pa…
I mean it is worth playing around in that space to see if it sticks. Maybe there is an alternate universe where they stuff became really popular?
You wouldn’t know unless you tried! Hopefully they didn’t invest too much into their MVP…
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#8I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.
Agreed, it's also how I keep my finger on the pulse of languages I enjoy that I'm not professionally using at the current moment and also to keep up with niche domain specific languages as to where and how they are being used. Boo!
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#9Unsurprising, in my usage of GitHub, I'm usually completely disinterested in what others are doing. Maybe they could occasionally feature really interesting hand-picked projects.
I’m interested in changes that happen to open source libraries that I care about, but I don’t understand the social aspect beyond that.
By the way, you mean uninterested :)
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#10I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.
Just curious, but why star them at all? I've starred 11 repos in my many years on github, to bookmark some specific projects. But others in my feed star projects daily and have over a thousand projects in their star list. I'm curious to why. Will you ever check them out again? Isn't the list now so long it's hard to find things in it?