Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#1

Post by substation13 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 9:36 AM UTC

As GitHub gets better at showing me interesting projects on the home page, I find myself being less and less productive. I visit github.com to get to the issue tracker or review a PR and 10 minutes later find myself browsing experimental open-source projects.

I suppose GitHub wants to drive "engagement", but is this an anti-feature?

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#2

Post by 076ae80a-3c97-4 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 9:59 AM UTC

No, I just don't look at it.

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#3

Post by kingkongjaffa » Wed, May 25, 2022, 10:37 AM UTC

Just set up your bookmark to be pointing at github/your-repo instead of just github home page.

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#4

Post by danuker » Wed, May 25, 2022, 10:38 AM UTC

I have a bookmark to a query showing me all the tickets waiting for my work.

This is distinct from https://github.com/issues/assigned which shows me every project, in that I filter for my work organization with user:.

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#5

Post by taubek » Wed, May 25, 2022, 10:51 AM UTC

I skip that page. Maybe I don't follow enough repos to have some content that would attract me to it.

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 25, 2022, 11:01 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#7

Post by killingtime74 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 11:14 AM UTC

No I use bitbucket

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#8

Post by corobo » Wed, May 25, 2022, 11:16 AM UTC

I don't think I've ever looked at the GitHub homepage, I just sort of go directly to the project I want to look at (mine: URL completion, others: search results)

Having looked at it now I don't think there's anything there of use to me, just a bunch of release updates. I guess this is different if you have open source projects issues to triage

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#9

Post by sshlocalhost98 » Wed, May 25, 2022, 11:17 AM UTC

Haha same here, I get distracted doing many different projects finishing none at the same time XD

Re: Ask HN: Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?

#10

Post by avyjit » Wed, May 25, 2022, 11:51 AM UTC

You can use UBlock Origin's element blocker to remove the parts that you find distracting. It's super useful on many websites too.