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Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by don_draper »

rohanjon wrote: post #20
don_draper wrote: post #13

I can't see the most watched or forked (in the hundreds), grouped by language anymore? Just the top 25? I'm not a fan of the change.

Here's the most forked https://github.com/search?q=%22&type=Repositories&s=forks Here's the most starred https://github.com/search?q=%22&type=Repositories You can filter by language on the left.

thanks

Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by ironchef »

ggreer wrote: post #3

It looks like GitHub removed the old rankings completely. For example, I can no longer see C projects ranked by star count. https://github.com/languages/C/most_watched redirects to https://github.com/trending :( To be honest, I mostly used those pages to satisfy my own vanity. My C project ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) just beat Arduino ( https://github.com/arduino/Arduino ) and was gunning for mr…

Thx for making the silver searcher. When I'm dealing with large scale git repos it blows ack/grep, etc away :)

Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by mindcrime »

GoNB wrote: post #23
mindcrime wrote: post #14

What does this even mean, anyway? Trending by what metric? Commits? Stars? Watches? Clicks? All of the above? Something else? ???

Trending is popularity over time. Popularity is probably an aggregate of what you just mentioned.

Popularity is probably an aggregate of what you just mentioned

IMO, it would be more useful if Github told us what it means with some specificity. Maybe not every detail, if they want to avoid having people try to game the system... but a synthetic metric that no-one understands the basis of, strikes me as somewhat useless.

Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by insteadof »

mindcrime wrote: post #14

What does this even mean, anyway? Trending by what metric? Commits? Stars? Watches? Clicks? All of the above? Something else? ???

Must have been updated since as they posted at the bottom of the post,

"What makes repositories or developers trend? We look at a variety of data points including stars, forks, commits, follows, and pageviews, weighting them appropriately. It's not just about total numbers, but also how recently the events happened."

Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by calhoun137 »

This is pretty cool! I have a dream about making small-medium contributing to tons and tons of random projects, just to learn and get to work with interesting people. The old search feature made it kind of hard to find cool repo's to work on that weren't seemingly saturated with contributors, I thought maybe I was using the "explore" feature wrong or else that you were supposed to find links on places like HN.

I'm hoping this one is better suited for such a purpose, but hoping even more that I find the motivation to follow through on the dream. No better time to start than tonight I suppose ;)

Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by karangoeluw »

ggreer wrote: post #3

It looks like GitHub removed the old rankings completely. For example, I can no longer see C projects ranked by star count. https://github.com/languages/C/most_watched redirects to https://github.com/trending :( To be honest, I mostly used those pages to satisfy my own vanity. My C project ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) just beat Arduino ( https://github.com/arduino/Arduino ) and was gunning for mr…

Personally, I like the new update for this -> http://i.imgur.com/FiDrPcb.png

Re: Explore what is Trending on GitHub

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Post by mindcrime »

insteadof wrote: post #27
mindcrime wrote: post #14

What does this even mean, anyway? Trending by what metric? Commits? Stars? Watches? Clicks? All of the above? Something else? ???

Must have been updated since as they posted at the bottom of the post, "What makes repositories or developers trend? We look at a variety of data points including stars, forks, commits, follows, and pageviews, weighting them appropriately. It's not just about total numbers, but also how recently the events happened."

Aaah, I see. Not sure if the page was updated, or if I overlooked that bit. But at any rate, it's good to know. I mean, I assumed it was something like that, but it's nice to get some clarity.
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