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...how about some privacy controls? I'd really prefer not to advertise which users and projects I'm following or starring. Now I have Facebook trying to own and broadcast my personal life and GitHub trying to own and broadcast my professional one. Ugh.
Since they have not posted anything about it yet, this might again be an accidental release of the branch. I wonder how many of these accidental deploys they have on a regular basis which we don't notice.
Or perhaps we've spent the past few weeks furiously improving performance so we can ship this genpop, and we chose to ship during downtraffic times to give extra insurance the feature would improve speed rather than degrade it. No deploy is on accident.
Only reason I thought this was an accident is because there was no blog post about it. Usually Github introduces it's every single improvement[1] on it's blog. Compared to them this definitely deserves an introduction.
...how about some privacy controls? I'd really prefer not to advertise which users and projects I'm following or starring. Now I have Facebook trying to own and broadcast my personal life and GitHub trying to own and broadcast my professional one. Ugh.
Can you give an example where you would star something you find embarrassing?
I have one forked repo that I forked to fix a line in their docs, and it looks to all the world like I spent a time of time on it.
...how about some privacy controls? I'd really prefer not to advertise which users and projects I'm following or starring. Now I have Facebook trying to own and broadcast my personal life and GitHub trying to own and broadcast my professional one. Ugh.
Can you give an example where you would star something you find embarrassing?
And it's not about personal embarrassment, it's also about security. If I star code I rely on to watch for updates, I'd be publicly advertising the attack surface for my app. That really sucks.
It's weird that it doesn't distinguish between your commits and others'. I have one forked repo that I forked to fix a line in their docs, and it looks to all the world like I spent a time of time on it.
- Now "owning" a repo seems even more important. Regularly commit to someone else's repo? Not evident unless you go digging for it.
- The timeline bar-graph used to show blue for your own commits and grey for other people's. Now it either looks like you did all the work (your own repo), or someone else did it (forked repos).
Even if these two don't matter to you personally, I fear it'll help drive behaviour you see a lot in the Ruby community where, unless it's a huge project like Rails, people start their own versions in the hope of getting it popular and recognised. There's little status to be gotten from tinkering on "someone else's" repo.
(Think social startups except with code libraries.)
Check your dashboard/News Feed. Also featuring a new design right now.
Now, all you see is username/repositoryname, which is damn near useless. They replaced actual content with...whitespace.
I don't know how they screwed this one up so badly, but they need to change it back to being socially useful again, and pronto.