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Me and the rest of the cool gang have been using GitLab for a while now.
What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?
It has CI/CD integrated( dont remember if they are in the free version).
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#112I’ve never considered GitHub to be “fun.” It’s a great tool , though. Most of my GH interaction is through my desktop system, not a browser (pushing and pulling checkouts). I’ve been using some form of source control for nearly 30 years (since Projector, in the 1990s). It’s a tool. A very, very important tool. I appreciate many of the “glossy” features of GH, like hero images and GH Pages, but this shows how “out of…
Never had any "fun" with github either.
I have had my account since 2013 and I've just learned about this "trending page" thing. Can anyone explain what's it useful for?
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#113I believe the turning point was when they changed how the ranking system on the Trending page worked. I had no idea Github had a "trending" mechanism. I just use it as a free place to store code repositories, of which I have about 20. About the only social feature of Github I use is "Issues", to report or deal with bugs. In fact, I rarely visit the site with a browser. Most usage is from "git". Which is what it's sup…
>I had no idea Github had a "trending" mechanism.
Sounds like this article doesn't apply to you then.
>Which is what it's supposed to be for.
That's just your opinion. Clearly people have been using github for discovering new software and more. I have found plenty of cool projects through the sites features.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
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#115For me stars on GitHub were me sort of bookmarking things I didn't use and.... probably wouldn't look at ever again? Thus I always felt a little weird about the hype around the number of stars.
For me, stars are a rough measure of traction. If I can get a project above 1000 or so, my project begins to take on a life of its own, and I can concentrate less on marketing and awareness.
I would say that stars are mostly a measure of interest/coolness. The difference to actual people using it can be absurd. The biggest project I maintained had 5k+ stars (which it got by landing on the HN frontpage a few times), but the actual amount of people that tried to use it is in the 10-20 range. On the flipside one of my other projects has a lot more users than it has stars.
With all that, stars have basically lost all meaning to me if I'm looking at it as a project outsider, and only have limited meaning as a maintainer.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#116I’ve never considered GitHub to be “fun.” It’s a great tool , though. Most of my GH interaction is through my desktop system, not a browser (pushing and pulling checkouts). I’ve been using some form of source control for nearly 30 years (since Projector, in the 1990s). It’s a tool. A very, very important tool. I appreciate many of the “glossy” features of GH, like hero images and GH Pages, but this shows how “out of…
Never had any "fun" with github either. I have had my account since 2013 and I've just learned about this "trending page" thing. Can anyone explain what's it useful for?
YMMV, but for me it does tend to show interesting projects that I otherwise would not have learned about.
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Well on a scale of coolness Bitbucket hits rock bottom, just like all things from Atlassian.
No offence, but as someone who has only ever used github and gitlab, can you clarify why it's uncool?
Their abrupt cease of support for mercurial damaged it beyond repair for me and many others. They didn't even offer to migrate stuff with the click of a button, people started writing scripts to migrate, and while you are migrating, why not to GitHub which in the meantime also gained free private repositories?
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No offence, but as someone who has only ever used github and gitlab, can you clarify why it's uncool?
Probably spillover from hating Jira, the popular-but-bad bug tracker system.
Jira is not bad per se, people use it like a generic CMS, and it also can be one, and that creates problems.