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.
Actually it’s just a normal day at Google
Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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#122> 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…
The main issue is the conflating of usage and value. The persona/user group that consumes the Trending pages are likely users who themselves contribute to open source, and thus are part of a flywheel that drives more code contribution overall. (e.g. how 1% of users post on reddit vs 99% consume) Not all usage is made equally.
This scenario reminds me of a funny story posted on HN a while ago: https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock.gmi (TL;DR; if you take this "usage based" feature removal logic to it's conclusion, a lot of important keys would be removed from computers/keyboards).
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#123After 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.
> 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.
"Trending" on social sites always seems to translate to, "here is popular thing that should become more popular because it's already popular."
The extreme preference for externally mediated measures of status never fails to amuse me.
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#124Earlier 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.
> especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons This comes off as inflammatory. It sounds like you're misrepresenting GP's desire to filter out a language they cannot read as a kind of bigotry against the speakers of that language. That may explain the apparent disapproval from the community. As for auto-translation, there are plenty of browser extensions and other solutions if people want that.
That's not how it read to me, as bigotry. It read more as, if you work in some sensitive role such as in the government, and you cannot work with Chinese nationals due to that, then the filter makes sense.
I also do agree with the filter itself purely because I ran into the same problem too, lots of Chinese repositories with poor if any English READMEs.
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#125I think I agree here.
GitHub calls itself social coding, but trending fits in poorly with that. When I hit a problem that I think might be solved by open source, telling me that the TypeScript repo is trending gives me exactly zero information.
If we're honest, the Trending tab often seems to mean, "these projects went viral on HN/social media." And I'm not sure why they deserve extra attention, but it follows the general trend of social media being obsessed with perpetuating the Matthew Effect.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#126Earlier 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.
> especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons This comes off as inflammatory. It sounds like you're misrepresenting GP's desire to filter out a language they cannot read as a kind of bigotry against the speakers of that language. That may explain the apparent disapproval from the community. As for auto-translation, there are plenty of browser extensions and other solutions if people want that.
You need to look up the definitions of "cannot" and "Chinese nationals". The first means you don't get a choice. The second is citizenship - not race, ethnicity, or language. How you misread that as choosing not to work with Chinese people is beyond me. Seems like you're the one looking to be inflammatory.
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#127I've been a big fan of the trending page, and have found many cool projects from there, as well as been very happy when my project has made it to the list, which usually brings on a big wave of new users! As someone who's building apps and actions to run on GitHub, I've always found the discoverability of apps to be lacking. The marketplace is nothing but a big list of things, in seemingly random order. Compare this…
Just started building something, let me present: trendy.dev! For now it's just a list of actions, sorted by stars. I'm planning to add a few more features, to keep track of currently popular actions, and of course, repositories that are currently getting a lot of traction!
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#128Sounds like a fun weekend project to replicate it? The GitHub search API seems to provide everything that is needed. It returns 30 repos per query and allows 30 * 60 * 24 = 43200 queries per day. So one could track the top 43200 * 30 = 1296000 repos. That is enough to track all repos with more then 20 stars: https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=stars:%3E1000&s... But maybe it has already been done? This looks…
I spent the afternoon building something similar to the trending page (starting with tracking github actions, will add more features over the weekend): https://trendy.dev/
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#129Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#130I spend so much time exploring repos related to work or personal projects. I literally do not have time at the end of my day where I think to myself, "you know what, I really want to find some more repos to star and never look at again."