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Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by vdaubry »

picsoung wrote: post #4

I am pretty surprised by my ranking in San Francisco :) 86 in Lua devs? not so many Lua devs around ... Also, it seems that some of my repo are not taking into account, like https://github.com/picsoung/uberSlackBot which has 13 stars.

The stars information comes from GitHub Archive : https://www.githubarchive.org/

There are some limitations, for example it doesn't include events before 2011

The concept of "star" has also changed several times (they are still called watchers in the API)

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by codebeaker »

Surprised to see that I'm only detected as having 34 "Ruby" stars when one of my Ruby projects has ~6,700 stars, all told across all my projects I ought to have closer to 10k ★.

Fun project, but buggy data makes for a bit of a crappy user experience. Doesn't GH classify languages pretty well using it's Linguist project? The project with ~6,700 stars is correctly classified as [ Ruby 97.5% | HTML 2.5% ] (the 2.5% seems to be from documentation and templates, which in itself is already weird)

I understand that many people find gamification fun, but I know a lot of people who don't like ranked leaderboards, based on stupid things like "how many people bookmarked your project", it leads to unnecessary egotistical competition, and driving more barriers between us than we need. (Example, what benefit would we get from comparing stars on vim, and neovim?… so we could argue to one group of people that their work is less important than another group?)

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by arnauddri »

codebeaker wrote: post #13

Surprised to see that I'm only detected as having 34 "Ruby" stars when one of my Ruby projects has ~6,700 stars, all told across all my projects I ought to have closer to 10k ★. Fun project, but buggy data makes for a bit of a crappy user experience. Doesn't GH classify languages pretty well using it's Linguist project? The project with ~6,700 stars is correctly classified as [ Ruby 97.5% | HTML 2.5% ] (the 2.5% seem…

same for me - plus it counts only half of my repos...

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by duckworth »

vdaubry wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask

What are you using to parse and resolve location? There doesn't seem to be a suggested format for a github profile and myself, like many other people in the US just put in a State abbreviation or City name which has DC in Van, Turkey.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by filiwickers »

kylec wrote: post #11
vdaubry wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask

It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin https://github.com/kylecronin

Also, it looks like the cities w/ the same name in different countries are treated as one city.

I am in Santa Fe, NM but ranked with people in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by azdle »

kylec wrote: post #11
vdaubry wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards, if you have any questions feel free to ask

It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin https://github.com/kylecronin

Same for me: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=Azdle

Tells me I'm in Houston, actually in Minneapolis.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by pcthrowaway »

sfk wrote: post #5

A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development. On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that information to recruiters.

You seem to be under the impression that you think this project is owned by github.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by functional_test »

jinnovation wrote: post #8
sfk wrote: post #5

A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development. On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that information to recruiters.

It sounds like you're opposed to the gamification; care to explain why? I'm curious.

Isn't it right there in his comment? Seems that he doesn't like the idea of having to work for free to "rank higher" if recruiters start to use these sorts of scores. Since no other profession has to work for free like this(see: the carpenter analogy), it seems a reasonable position.
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