GitHub isn't fun anymore • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by p2detar » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:01 AM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #100

I’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…

I kind of do have "fun" with GH. I follow people and see what repos they have starred, or code/issues they're working on. I also follow repos and check the source code that's being committed from time to time. Just for fun, to learn new stuff. The "Explore repositories" option did help me to find a couple of interesting repos.

I feel that at some point GH decided to distance themselves from the social aspect of the platform, but I still cling to it.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by Normal_gaussian » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:02 AM UTC

kwistzhaderach wrote: post #99

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

When I started using it it was free private repos and CI minutes.

Whilst GH has duplicated these features very recently, they are still things that are at the core of gitlabs offering, so are generally higher quality and better supported.

Gitlab is also open source, which lets me mirror their repo locally in case they die or remove a feature I use.

Oh, and gitlab isn't systematically racist, which is always a personal ethical win.

Shout out to sourcehut as a possible next cool thing - currently in public alpha

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by _tk_ » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:02 AM UTC

I would love to see an argument in what way the "old Trending algorithm" constituted a meritocracy.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:03 AM UTC

jaekash wrote: post #140

random_visitor wrote: post #102

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No offence, but as someone who has only ever used github and gitlab, can you clarify why it's uncool?

Atlassian products is a collection of poorly integrated and maintained applications each with serious issues which Atlassian refuses to fix. Atlassian is basically where things go to die.

If Atlassian products is a collection of poorly integrated what to say about plenty of enterprise solutions?

I am yet to find something that works as good as Atlassian products.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:07 AM UTC

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #127

pjc50 wrote: post #107

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Probably spillover from hating Jira, the popular-but-bad bug tracker system.

Yeah, hatred mostly because Jira is the grand enabler of micromanagers and corporate accountability and a bit slow. It can be whatever people want to use it for. The customisation and the key features of the tool are not bad. Then again, most tools are neutral until a person wields them. [Edit typo]

Jira is heaven compared with Excel sheets, or half backed task management done by Summer interns than many of us have suffered with.

I have endured all, from web forms storing their data via Perl CGI scripts to Excel sheets which require a PhD in VBA macros to change anything.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by axegon_ » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:08 AM UTC

I'll be honest I scroll through the trending page once a day. I am not sure about javascript because I couldn't care less about it, but I have to admit for many other languages, I do end up wondering how some projects get to trending...

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:08 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #158

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #100

I’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…

Same here, it is just a place to dump a couple of stuff I very seldom work on, as means to provide something to HR. I also interact mostly via desktop tools.

I work on GH-hosted code every day. My GH profile activity log is solid green.

But I have been writing open-source code for twenty years. An open repo site is quite useful for that workflow.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:11 AM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #167

pjmlp wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here, it is just a place to dump a couple of stuff I very seldom work on, as means to provide something to HR. I also interact mostly via desktop tools.

I work on GH-hosted code every day. My GH profile activity log is solid green. But I have been writing open-source code for twenty years. An open repo site is quite useful for that workflow.

Sorry I didn't intent to mean that you also just dump code there, was actually thinking about the interaction via desktop tools.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #162

kwistzhaderach wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?

When I started using it it was free private repos and CI minutes. Whilst GH has duplicated these features very recently, they are still things that are at the core of gitlabs offering, so are generally higher quality and better supported. Gitlab is also open source, which lets me mirror their repo locally in case they die or remove a feature I use. Oh, and gitlab isn't systematically racist, which is always a persona…

Racist?

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by arp242 » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #162

kwistzhaderach wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?

When I started using it it was free private repos and CI minutes. Whilst GH has duplicated these features very recently, they are still things that are at the core of gitlabs offering, so are generally higher quality and better supported. Gitlab is also open source, which lets me mirror their repo locally in case they die or remove a feature I use. Oh, and gitlab isn't systematically racist, which is always a persona…

> Oh, and gitlab isn't systematically racist, which is always a personal ethical win.

Wait, what? How is GitHub "systematically racist"?

> Shout out to sourcehut as a possible next cool thing - currently in public alpha

Sourcehut seems like a niche product for a niche audience. That's not a criticism – if anything, that's a compliment because too often people with niche needs or preferences are left out in the cold, but I don't think it'll be anywhere near the "next GitHub".