Ah yes. The act of learning about something awesome by the message saying it's going away.
Hah, this concept sounds like something you'd find named in Meaning of Liff.
Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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#112I 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 t…
GitHub should reduce starring to just be a bookmarking feature, that is, not show the numbers of stars a repo has. Showing it is what makes it an ambiguous social feature.
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#114Just because some feature has low usage does not mean you should deprecate it. The whole point of GitHub is to provide discoverability to what others are doing. If anything they should improve upon the feature.
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#115GitHub 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 think the social networking aspect of GitHub is one of its worst features. It carries with it all the negatives while also being required to use at work.
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#116I've literally never opened that tab. And probably the majority of people not using it doesn't comment here either
Personally i didn't know it even existed
Same here. I checked it out because of this page. I also didn't know the explore tab was a thing. There's a social media aspect to github?
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#117> Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available
I've never used this tab. (Just opened it for the first time.)
It's cool, and I'm disappointed to see it go.
BUT: We should spend a minute thinking about the counter argument. Little and unused features can add cruft to a codebase, and significantly impede development. It's possible that hooks for corner cases and features can be so complicated that working around them becomes more burdensome than supporting the important use cases.
Case in point: When I was lead on Syncplicity, we had a corner case where a given folder on disk could be in multiple synchronized folders in the cloud. (Long story.) The problem was this corner case made many use cases, in the desktop client, significantly more complicated and bug-prone than needed. (What happens if you have different permissions to the same file?)
There was a point where I put my foot down (as lead) and said we couldn't support the corner case anymore. This lead to almost a year of two branches of the product, and daily merge conflicts between both branches. I had to put my foot down again (as lead) and push that we had to ship the version of the product that didn't have the corner case and stop working on two branches.
This makes me wonder if Github needs to cut back on corner cases and other little-used features in order to fix some maintainability issues?
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#118Hi, guys. I'd like to improve the sorting rules of the Trending Repos for OSSInsight. Give me some advice plz. https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight/issues/778
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#119GitHub 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 way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another
Those emoji votes reduced a significant amount of the "+1" and similar low content comments which could take up significant space on a regular repo.
We could look at other issue tracking systems such as Redmine. Pulling up a feature that's in the next release https://www.redmine.org/issues/3088
> +1 It would be very good to get this, as we have to hide our estimations from some roles :(
> +1 on this one!
> +1
> +1 It would be great to have estimated times integrated in the allover times permissions system.
If you look at the comments on GitHub issues from before the expansion of emoji votes to what they are, there are fewer "fluff" comments.
The reasoning for this is in https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request...
> While people have been able to include emoji in responses for a long time, using them as reactions resulted in a lot of noise. In many cases, especially on popular projects, the result is a long thread full of emoji and not much content, which makes it difficult to have a discussion. With reactions, you can now reduce the noise in these threads.
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#120> Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available I've never used this tab. (Just opened it for the first time.) It's cool, and I'm disappointed to see it go. BUT: We should spend a minute thinking about the counter argument. Little and unused features can add cruft to a codebase, and significantly impede development. It's possible that hooks for corner cases an…
GitHub has had so many issues this year people lost count, me included. Of course this points to operations/SRE issues.
OTOH if a feature not being widely used was grounds for its removal, they should turn excel into a list editor.