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Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by tedivm »

erichocean wrote: post #25
damncabbage wrote: post #18

It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me: - 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 matte…

They've also removed the "traffic" graph, that showed you how many people have viewed your project over the last 90 days or so (I can't remember the exact amount). That was a very useful way to gauge interest. Honestly, IMO, GitHub has been getting worse, not better, since the spring. I have no idea why, but they're taking away features -- perhaps to speed up the site? Anyway, I don't get it. They dropped their "soci…

I really, really miss the traffic graphs. Before I moved to github I had google analytics running for each of my projects, which was absolutely amazing for discovering when people talked about them. The increased contributions is worth the trade off, but I do miss that info.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by DigitalSea »

erichocean wrote: post #23
DigitalSea wrote: post #22

Github are absolutely killing it right now. Seems like everyday there's a new HN submission about a cool new Github feature or redesigned aspect. The new profile design is nice, but seems more emphasis has been placed on users who own repos as opposed to contributing to other repos. Still needs a space to add in a brief bio though considering Github is considered to be the new age developer resume.

The frontpage posts recently have been about site-wide GitHub outages (twice), plus their blog post about how it happened. Not exactly "killing it", unless I misunderstood you...

Slow down there for a minute, man. It was in reference to the new command bar feature they recently implemented, being able to search & filter stars, the addition of the commit status API and all of that was introduced this month. September has been a very busy month for Github in terms of changes and functionality, so yes I'd say killing it.

As for the outages, at least they were honest and transparent about the outages unlike many other companies who try and sweep it under the rug. Accountability and transparency are 2 great traits to have in a company.

No need to be so cynical erichocean.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by chimeracoder »

philfreo wrote: post #28
damncabbage wrote: post #18

It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me: - 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 matte…

I'm seeing forks just as prominently as "owned" repos, so I don't see the problem.

If you fork a repo and then issue a pull request, you 'own' the forked version, but the original still doesn't show up.

This breaks for the traditional git workflow, which doesn't revolve around the 'forking' step.

In other words, if I commit regularly to another person's repository, even if I don't have a (public) 'forked' version, those commits should still show up regardless.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by damncabbage »

apgwoz wrote: post #17
llimllib wrote: post #15

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.

Did you mean repositories? There's a slightly different icon for forked repos, but it's not very obvious.

The commit activity graphs used to differentiate between your activity (blue) and other people's activity (grey).

Now it's just all grey. :(

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by caseorganic »

Why do great websites always feel compelled to redesign? Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook etc. It is very unsettling. The equivalent of someone coming into you home when you're not there and changing the entire floorplan, then expecting you to be elated when you come back at night, instead of confused and disoriented when all of the cupboards seem larger than they appear.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by cobychapple »

craigc wrote: post #29

I am not crazy about the new design. It actually feels less designed to me. Particularly I don't like that the activity is now hidden on profile pages. I often like to look at people's activity, and it bothers me that it is an extra click away every time now. I miss the blue to distinguish your own commits from commits by other users. Information that used to be available right on top such as organizations, and peopl…

  It actually feels less designed to me.
Some would say that less design is a good thing, for the same reasons less code is a good thing.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by Nervetattoo »

erichocean wrote: post #25
damncabbage wrote: post #18

It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me: - 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 matte…

They've also removed the "traffic" graph, that showed you how many people have viewed your project over the last 90 days or so (I can't remember the exact amount). That was a very useful way to gauge interest. Honestly, IMO, GitHub has been getting worse, not better, since the spring. I have no idea why, but they're taking away features -- perhaps to speed up the site? Anyway, I don't get it. They dropped their "soci…

I've complained a few times on twitter to @github about removing the traffic graph. I used it as a motivator myself, and a way of trying to prioritise what project to work on.

A spike in traffic could mean I invested that extra time to land something new in a project, that was a great way for github to ensure commitment in projects.

Apart from that I think every change in the last six months have been good.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by Shank »

obilgic wrote: post #12
kneath wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Are you saying the last one was not an accident either? 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. [1] https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines

I asked Zach Holman: It wasn't an accident, and a blog post will be up later.

https://twitter.com/holman/status/248675337536413696

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