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I still can't write a blurb about myself. I'd really like to see that, since (for a lot of people) Github is starting to be the geek resume.
It's pretty easy to tell if you're a "python hacker" or a "C hacker" etc. with a quick glance over your repos and their descriptions.
More change for the sake of change from Github. Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance. Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not co…
Less information? I can now understand people's projects far quicker, and read information about them far quicker. As both a designer, and a programer, neither side of me has complaints. It's much cleaner and very much a step in the right direction. Just because you're not fumbling to say what a beautiful new change it is, I am betting without realising it will make your life easier. People don't like change.
> People don't like change.
Never say never, Less is more, blah blah blah.
More change for the sake of change from Github. Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance. Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not co…
Here are a few userscripts that I find helpful on profile pages: https://github.com/skratchdot/github-repo-filter-info.user.j... https://github.com/skratchdot/github-repo-counts.user.js/ https://github.com/skratchdot/github-get-missing-description... They don't address your stream comment, but one of my gripes is not being able to see repo counts when filtering, or having the option to fill in "repo descriptions" for…
Must be a challenge to keep those repos up to date with the constant changes at GitHub, though.
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Can you give an example where you would star something you find embarrassing?
I don't need to. What I choose to pay attention to should be private by default. 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.
I'd prefer to see work done on features that are hurting the utility of the profile page - like listing repos that you're a collaborator of, but not necessarily the owner.
As it stands, the profile page is a misrepresentation of a user's work on Github.
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.
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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.
What's a genpop?
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…
Agreed. Additionally, even if you are a collaborator on someone else's repo it doesn't show on your profile, which greatly under-represents a user's activity on Github.
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…
So github is about status? Silly me, I thought was contributing to OSS.