Goodbye sweet trending page, I hardly knew ye
Never knew it existed tbh
Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#92Since there are less and less ways to discover cool repos, recently I’ve made an open source extension to get recommendations on GitHub. You can check it out https://indexstorm.com/git-rec
Just installed it and am already loving it! I tested it on a repo for which I thought I knew all the available alternatives but was surprised to find multiple new ones!
And I am saying as a person who has always hated recommender systems at shopping sites/social media.
Thank you so much for creating this.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#93GitHub 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"
..."enterprise customers" want a "social network"? (I feel like I'm not parsing what you are saying correctly.)
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#94I see this is a good thing though. I'm not sure, but trending tabs allow for growth hacking with tricks to get on the top by spammers. What i prefer, is personalized trending profile instead.
Trending is only way to observe trends outside of personalized or curated bubble. Not a lot of spam happen in trending tabs.
I mean, spam trick to get to the top.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The language filter was actually a suggestion I made (I’m probably not the only one but I sent them feedback emails and everything). The reason is that at some point a few years ago, the trending list was filled with Chinese repositories which makes it useless if you don’t speak the language. The language filter fixed it for me and made the page useful again.
I mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.
Or just right-click and hit "translate to LANGUAGE"?
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
The language filter was actually a suggestion I made (I’m probably not the only one but I sent them feedback emails and everything). The reason is that at some point a few years ago, the trending list was filled with Chinese repositories which makes it useless if you don’t speak the language. The language filter fixed it for me and made the page useful again.
I mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.
> an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions
Please don't do this - plenty of service auto-translate descriptions and they drive me crazy. If the description is in a language I don't speak then at least I know that I can skip it. But if it's auto-translated then I'll click on the repo, only then realize that I don't understand it, go back and try again with the next repo.
The only situation in which I would welcome such a change would be if GitHub translated comments, function names, variable names, READMEs and all documentation (including screenshots and reference guides not hosted on GitHub) AND THEN translated my contributions back from my language to the original one.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.
Or just right-click and hit "translate to LANGUAGE"?
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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#98Unsurprising, 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 :)
The word has both meanings (Shakespeare used it to mean "uninterested" so there's centuries of precedent). You were not confused. Let it go.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#99huh!?? 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.
> Seems like a totally reasonable product decision from my seat.
The same probably applied to shutting down Google Reader. But it's still brought up a decade later, because it hit the "right" group of users. These changes spend a lot of the goodwill built by Github.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.
> an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions Please don't do this - plenty of service auto-translate descriptions and they drive me crazy. If the description is in a language I don't speak then at least I know that I can skip it. But if it's auto-translated then I'll click on the repo, only then realize that I don't understand it, go back and try aga…
Thanks. Autotranslations create a blogspam type experience that cheapens the site or service using presenting the translated text.