GitHub is owned by Microsoft. This sort of BS should surprise nobody.
Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability and propensity to fuck things up.
I remember when Skype was great, for example. We could easily cite 30 other such examples.
Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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#12So I guess me checking that page everyday wasn't enough to make a difference. :'(
+1 that page is usually my go-to whenever I have a bit of free time :(
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#13I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.
micro$oft would rather "recommend" you things which are adverts, then things which are organically trending
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#14After the ranking algorithm change to the Trending page, I found I basically stopped using it (I lived on that page before the change), I found I'm more likely to find cool projects/libraries/etc here.
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#15I honestly had no idea this page existed...
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#16I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.
Just curious, but why star them at all? I've starred 11 repos in my many years on github, to bookmark some specific projects. But others in my feed star projects daily and have over a thousand projects in their star list. I'm curious to why. Will you ever check them out again? Isn't the list now so long it's hard to find things in it?
fwiw, I use github stars also as simple bookmark list, with about 100 stars.
When one of my (quite obscure) repos get stars, I feel joy. I like to think starring someone else's repo has that same reaction for them, too.
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#17GitHub could never quite decide whether they want to be a social network or not. The "Trending" page (which has been useless for a long time due to the ranking algorithm rewrite several years ago) is just one example of this indecision. The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another, and the ridiculous "achievements" on user pa…
The worst thing on GitHub are those “rating” badges in profiles that always say A+ regardless of the profile quality. Just having one of those is a decent screening filter itself.
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#18It's almost certainly not due to low usage, but due to some Microsoft PM getting a promotion by making big changes.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#19GitHub could never quite decide whether they want to be a social network or not. The "Trending" page (which has been useless for a long time due to the ranking algorithm rewrite several years ago) is just one example of this indecision. The way users can vote on issues with "thumbs up", "heart", "rocket", and "fanfare" emojis (instead of simply "up" and "down") is another, and the ridiculous "achievements" on user pa…
The social network aspect was a means to an end ("get enterprise customers"), but the needs of enterprise customers differ from the needs of open source communities. Hence the "indecision"
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#20I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.
For me, the explore page ALWAYS says I'm interested in the topic "vorbis audio" because of the 'topics that i follow' (I follow no topics), so that's a nice bug. 75% of the repos there never change for me.
The trending page otoh is nice and fresh, though I wish they'd change it to prevent already popular repos like typescript from "trending" (why are people starring this? ridiculous.)