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Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

#42

Personally, I found gitlab has been quite nice for many years now and I've had free private profiles there since I signed up. It's a great service

It is great but last I used it there wasn’t any kind of free tool like dependabot built in.

https://gitlab.com/dependabot-gitlab/dependabot

Haven't tried it yet, though.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

#43

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Will there be an inheritance tax on HN karma?

It must lest HN ends up with a permanent upper class of exclusive commenters.

That's actually what happened at Slashdot. I scraped a slice of all postings a few years ago and there was a notable trend where early UIDs below 200K were posting the bulk of comments.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to turn off some of those things but not others.

GitHub is now owned by Microsoft. Just saying.

GitHub was just as bad before Microsoft bought them; a proprietary software as a service vendor using venture capital funding to provide a loss leader that lured people away from running and using open source infrastructure.

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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Do you have an actual complaint here, or just buzzwords? Calling something an “anti-pattern” or “undesired” doesn’t mean anything. Your comment contains no substance that couldn’t have been conveyed by saying “I hate it”. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. That’s what I do. Is there an actual reason that the mere existence of social networking features is harmful to those of us who choose not to bother with them?

Widespread practices infect norms. For example, thanks to the norms fostered on GitHub, you can no longer expect the average programmer to file good bug reports or to just interact in an appropriate way with the bugtracker. We can't really talk about "wikis", either, without confusion about what a wiki even is—again, thanks to GitHub.

> For example, thanks to the norms fostered on GitHub, you can no longer expect the average programmer to file good bug reports or to just interact in an appropriate way with the bugtracker.

Was it done properly? I suspect that average programmer just didn't report anything, instead of create new GitHub issue. It's annoying to sign up each ML or bugzilla.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have an actual complaint here, or just buzzwords? Calling something an “anti-pattern” or “undesired” doesn’t mean anything. Your comment contains no substance that couldn’t have been conveyed by saying “I hate it”. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. That’s what I do. Is there an actual reason that the mere existence of social networking features is harmful to those of us who choose not to bother with them?

Widespread practices infect norms. For example, thanks to the norms fostered on GitHub, you can no longer expect the average programmer to file good bug reports or to just interact in an appropriate way with the bugtracker. We can't really talk about "wikis", either, without confusion about what a wiki even is—again, thanks to GitHub.

How can GitHub be at fault for people being lazy or lacking common sense when filing a bug report, or being rude?

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

#49

Just in time for Netlify to discontinue support for private GitHub repositories for free plans. Good thing cloudflare still has free Cloudflare pages support for private GitHub pages.

Netlify shouldn't be trusted anyway, I've seen them randomly terminate an account and take all the associated sites down.

Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub

#50

What do they mean by “now generally available”? AFAIK, private profiles were available before also.

Yeah, was this in an open beta before? I have been using it for my work account for a while.

Yup, introduced as a beta feature in April, now it's here to stay.

From https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-21-private-profiles/)

> Private profiles are in public beta

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