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Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by lione »

fizzbatter wrote: post #76
Karunamon wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site you are under no obligation to use and up until 17 minutes ago weren't aware of is a "distraction"? Really now? https://github.com . Done.

No kidding. If you're so concerned, then if it's not on github.com or not advertised via blog.github.com ... ignore it! I mean, we're not talking about Phishing here. We're talking about a user who is annoyed that he stumbled upon a site and is unsure if he should like it or not. Almost sounds like an odd form of brand loyalty. "I can't decide if i should like this or not"

Really odd form of brand loyalty. "Things are diluting the brand I like, I'm going to switch to a competitor so I don't have to worry about liking things related to the brand I like"

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by angersock »

eridius wrote: post #64
angersock wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downvoted because "wah wah wah branding guidelines wah wah wah". I thought this was hacker news, not crybaby news. Seriously, though--it's awards for rankings, based on github . I think that the "github-awards" domain name is rather descriptive. What, you'd prefer some other nonsense like "rank.ly" or some other damn fool thing? EDIT: The fact that the parent post is the top comment on this thread is saddening. Not "…

Is any issue that you personally don't care about "crybaby news"?

Is the community better served by positive responses to creative works, or to nitpicking over trademark infringement by people who are not responsible for either claiming it or enforcing it?

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by eridius »

angersock wrote: post #83
eridius wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is any issue that you personally don't care about "crybaby news"?

Is the community better served by positive responses to creative works, or to nitpicking over trademark infringement by people who are not responsible for either claiming it or enforcing it?

How about both? A comment describing how the name of the product is a violation of GitHub's name and branding usage guidelines does not somehow cancel out other comments.

If everybody wrote the same comment, there would be no point to commenting.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by welder »

lucisferre wrote: post #55

I run most of my projects under an organization so this doesn't really work. Also stars aren't really a great measure of anything after a point. Perfect example are the json-jwt and ruby-jwt gems. The latter gets more stars because it is arguably easier for people to find even though the former is a far more complete and robust implementation of the JWT spec.

We're trying to bridge the gap between private repos and public profiles. Nobody sees the work you put into your org-repos, but that work can still be shown on our leaderboard at https://wakatime.com/leaders

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by flurdy »

LukeB_UK wrote: post #67

I don't think it takes into account the country, just the city. I live in Halifax, UK and it compared me with people in Halifax, Canada. Edit: Also, I have more than 1 star on my projects, yet it just reports 1?

At least it finds a Halifax. My location is set as Hampshire which it has never heard of, and for some reason it compared me to other Scala people in Guyana, the country. :)

Though meetup.com is not much better. Their geoip correctly identifies my town as Alton, Hampshire, then shows all the meetups near the village Alton in Staffordshire...

Facebook is not much better. My town is not an accepted location but any of the surrounding villages are...

Geoip and location is hard.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by tessierashpool »

count wrote: post #80
tessierashpool wrote: post #79

according to this site, I'm the #1 developer in Mexico for a ton of languages. in reality, I'm not in Mexico. similar comments abound: "I live in Halifax, UK and it compared me with people in Halifax, Canada." "I'm only detected as having 34 Ruby stars when one of my Ruby projects has ~6,700 stars." another comment: "[the site is] in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines." this thing is a mess, and…

It's only pulling the first part - my profile says 'Van down by the river' and it put me in 'Van, Turkey'. Hilarious. Good to know I'm #1 Python guy of all the hobos down by the river!

congratulations! achievement unlocked.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

vdaubry wrote: post #77
codebeaker wrote: post #26

I'd like to call out for the author of this that you are in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines: > ## Naming projects and products > Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names. (Reference: https://github.com/logos ) Edit: Why the downvotes? It's valid, and if someone had used my company name in their unauthorized, misleading and…

Hi, Vincent here, author of Github Awards. Thanks for pointing this out. There is already a small note in footer stating that this site is no way affiliated with the Github company, i'll make that a lot more visible.

>i'll make that a lot more visible. //

Appears below the fold in what looks like 9pt* for me; I take it the visibility hasn't been improved yet.

* checked, it's 10px vs 18px attribution line.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by vdaubry »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #88
vdaubry wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Vincent here, author of Github Awards. Thanks for pointing this out. There is already a small note in footer stating that this site is no way affiliated with the Github company, i'll make that a lot more visible.

> i'll make that a lot more visible. // Appears below the fold in what looks like 9pt* for me; I take it the visibility hasn't been improved yet. * checked, it's 10px vs 18px attribution line.

No i havent updated it yet.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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Post by vdaubry »

fiatjaf wrote: post #65

Thank you! I was almost doing this myself, but you did it first, now I'm free! How much did it take? Too much data? How much? How did you get it?

Glad you like it ! The database is about 20GB. All details about the import are on the readme : https://github.com/vdaubry/github-awards
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