GitHub is owned by Microsoft. This sort of BS should surprise nobody. Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability and propensity to fuck things up. I remember when Skype was great, for example. We could easily cite 30 other such examples.
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Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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#22After the ranking algorithm change to the Trending page, I found I basically stopped using it (I lived on that page before the change), I found I'm more likely to find cool projects/libraries/etc here.
The rewrite was horrible. I remember before how you could find interesting projects from random developers with growing communities. Now it's side-project X from reknowned developer N, or the newly created repo from some known tech firm that somehow has 100 stars already. All the actual fresh meat got dried out. I lost interest after the rewrite.
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#23Trending Repo's used to work great years back. I haven't used it after it stopped being useful at all.
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#24It was my favorite
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#25huh!?? 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
> huh!?? don't they have amplitude to check how many users click that page?
Yes!?? Turns out the value is "not enough".
I never click on that and have starred no cool projects from there.
Seems like a totally reasonable product decision from my seat.
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#26The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days.
Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Language" dropdown, which AFAICT is the only real change from the last few years.
It's not that I think being able to search by spoken language is bad or anything, it just screams of a middle manager trying to "solve" the important problem of a few people being confused about how the "language" filter referred to the programming language, and the solution was "let's add another button!"
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#27The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days. Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Language" dropdown, which AFAICT is the only real change from the last few years. It's not that I think being able to search by spoken language is bad or anything, it just screams of a middle manager trying to "solve" the important problem of a few people being conf…
I always assumed it was to add a way to filter out those Chinese repos that are starred by a million people but aren't actually code project.
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#28I 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?
I use it as both a bookmark so I can find a repo again in future, but also as a kind of "I think this project is great" thumbs up. It's pretty clear that that's a common reason for stars.
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#29GitHub 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…
The social network aspect was a means to an end ("get enterprise customers"), but the needs of enterprise customers differ from the needs of open source communities. Hence the "indecision"
ironic, as a person who was very warm to GitHub previously and after attempting to coldly assess their offering for enterprise: I found it to be quite lacking compared to Gitlab.
I can't imagine choosing GitHub except for cool points or if you're working very closely with code that isn't yours primarily.
For example: Things like SAML and SCIM are very important to enterprise customers and it feels extremely jank on GitHub.
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#30It's almost certainly not due to low usage, but due to some Microsoft PM getting a promotion by making big changes.
Yeah how much effort is it really to maintain it?