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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by mrweasel »

oleg_antonyan wrote: post #44

Where is this page? Never knew it exists and cannot find it now

There's a lot of "hidden" stuff on Github. I'm not really sure why, the default page when you're logged in and go to github.com is pretty much useless. They could put some of the functionality there.

Maybe you can change it, I don't can't figure it out. Why is "Following" the default, I never need to know that.

I never used the "Trending" but it could be one of these cases where companies are measuring something, decides it's not being used, but fail to consider why that might be. Personally I don't see it being particularly relevant, but many seem to enjoy it.

To navigate to the "tab", which is just a page really. Click on "Explore" and then it's in the middle of the page, under the black menu. Or go here: https://github.com/trending

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by jonas-w »

mg wrote: post #68

Sounds like a fun weekend project to replicate it? The GitHub search API seems to provide everything that is needed. It returns 30 repos per query and allows 30 * 60 * 24 = 43200 queries per day. So one could track the top 43200 * 30 = 1296000 repos. That is enough to track all repos with more then 20 stars: https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=stars:%3E1000&s... But maybe it has already been done? This looks…

When logged in, with an api key, you have 5000 requests per hour.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by lhnz »

onion2k wrote: post #53
quyleanh wrote: post #3

I 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.

I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. I think this hints at part of the problem with Github as a social hub for tech. I do the same thing, and star things I've seen in the Trending page. Very often I never actually go back to those things though. That star is essentially a signal to the repo owner saying "I'm happy this exists." The problem is that there are also people who star t…

Hm, I use the star as "interesting; maybe good". It's a very weak signal that I didn't think something was awful and wanted to be able to find it again. I wouldn't assume that a repository is amazing just because it gets 10+k stars -- this only means that it became viral.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by thiht »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #88
thiht wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The language filter was actually a suggestion I made (I’m probably not the only one but I sent them feedback emails and everything). The reason is that at some point a few years ago, the trending list was filled with Chinese repositories which makes it useless if you don’t speak the language. The language filter fixed it for me and made the page useful again.

I mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.

There’s a need for language filter for another reason: number imbalance. The trending page used to be full of Chinese projects with an absurd number of stars, so no non Chinese project could be featured on the trending page.

At some point I actually tried to read some of these projects and they often were complete garbage (empty repositories or disgusting code) or completely specific to China. The useful projects tended to have an English readme anyway.

This honestly made me realize there’s kind of a fracture in open source between China and the west: Chinese don’t speak English, and the west doesn’t speak Chinese. It’s almost like they have parallel libraries for everything we routinely use. Which makes sense because we rarely provide Chinese documentation on our projects.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by rendall »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #88
thiht wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The language filter was actually a suggestion I made (I’m probably not the only one but I sent them feedback emails and everything). The reason is that at some point a few years ago, the trending list was filled with Chinese repositories which makes it useless if you don’t speak the language. The language filter fixed it for me and made the page useful again.

I mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.

> especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons

This comes off as inflammatory. It sounds like you're misrepresenting GP's desire to filter out a language they cannot read as a kind of bigotry against the speakers of that language.

That may explain the apparent disapproval from the community.

As for auto-translation, there are plenty of browser extensions and other solutions if people want that.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by bhrgunatha »

chaosprint wrote: post #45

I rarely use this page because often I find it recommends some big projects rather than interesting small projects. Why do I need to see the React repo again and again? The algorithm for deciding what is trending is to blame.

Absolutely.

Many here are saying how much they like the feature.

I'd much prefer a "similar repos/projects/people" once I'm visiting a project or person I've _chosen_ to view.

I've already expressed my interest by visiting, why not exploit that?

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by dijit »

satyrnein wrote: post #73
dijit wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ironic, as a person who was very warm to GitHub previously and after attempting to coldly assess their offering for enterprise: I found it to be quite lacking compared to Gitlab. I can't imagine choosing GitHub except for cool points or if you're working very closely with code that isn't yours primarily. For example: Things like SAML and SCIM are very important to enterprise customers and it feels extremely jank on G…

We're on Azure DevOps (despite deploying to AWS) and it's been weirdly good. I'm a little sad that Microsoft's focus is shifting to GitHub. We're evaluating GitLab as another possible all-in-one solution.

Sometimes microsoft really hits.

Excel, MSSQL, vscode, c#.

Then you get turds like Teams..

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by whoibrar »

mg wrote: post #68

Sounds like a fun weekend project to replicate it? The GitHub search API seems to provide everything that is needed. It returns 30 repos per query and allows 30 * 60 * 24 = 43200 queries per day. So one could track the top 43200 * 30 = 1296000 repos. That is enough to track all repos with more then 20 stars: https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=stars:%3E1000&s... But maybe it has already been done? This looks…

Wow this is interesting, thanks for posting.
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