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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by japhyr »

nielsole wrote: post #41
p-e-w wrote: post #4

GitHub 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 must say that the "following" timeline with who starred what on the main view is mildly interesting.

That is helpful at times. There are some developers whose opinions I know and respect, and it's helpful to see what projects are catching their attention.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by onion2k »

quyleanh wrote: post #3

I 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.

I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page.

I think this hints at part of the problem with Github as a social hub for tech. I do the same thing, and star things I've seen in the Trending page. Very often I never actually go back to those things though. That star is essentially a signal to the repo owner saying "I'm happy this exists." The problem is that there are also people who star things to say "I love this" or "I am using this" or simply "I'm bookmarking this."

That's fine, of course, but then repo owners then start saying things like "My library has 5000 stars, it's clearly the best library for X!" and "My library got to 20000 stars much more quickly than Y and Z, so people must think it's better than Y and Z!"

Github probably should turn off the social features unless they can think up a way of discouraging people using the social aspect as a measure of quality or popularity when they're really not those things.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

That's a shame. I admit that I hardly ever look at this page but when I do rediscover it every few months I always stumble into a load of great projects.

I was just looking at the list and saw this - https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking - anyone missing the rending feature might like that

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by [deleted] »

p-e-w wrote: post #4

GitHub 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…

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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by SQueeeeeL »

nmfisher wrote: post #42
spookthesunset wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Agreed. I think all of these features/additions have been useless, but I'm not going to criticize them for trying out something new.

I think criticizing them is fair. GitHub is a well established code repository which does something and does it well.

Microsoft endlessly tinkering with the product shows a lack of stability in it's lifespan, what if you adopt a new feature they add only for it to be removed in the next cycle. But they paid 7.5 billion dollars for the website, and need to justify the salaries of dozens of VPs of marketing and PMs, so here we are.

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