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GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

enriquto wrote: post #189
MaxBarraclough wrote: post #159

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Perhaps a relevant comparison here is Pinboard. It's a paid subscription website and has done very well as a one-man-army project. Its success hasn't compromised its virtues of being lightweight and no-nonsense (unlike Delicious). If SourceHut could do the same for Git that would be great.

> If SourceHut could do the same for Git that would be great. It already does. Other than some (minor) missing features that are in active development, what else do you need?

It's a 'public alpha'. Personally I won't be signing up until it's describing itself as stable.

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Post by hoseja »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #176
tomcooks wrote: post #114

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For starters, it's not owned by a gigagroup

Instead it's owned by an abrasive difficult to deal with developer who will argue "you're just doing it wrong" with paying customers. Clearly things aren't exactly roses and sunshine here either.

That sounds like a positive to me.

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Post by jon-wood »

0x0 wrote: post #103
kwistzhaderach wrote: post #99

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

Free unlimited CI minutes for private repos if you bring your own gitlab-runner is one great benefit I enjoy.

That’s an odd definition of free you’ve got there given you’re going to have to pay for something to run it on.

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Post by 6510 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #186
pjmlp wrote: post #168

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

No offense was had. I am quite aware that we all have different approaches and workflows.

leafpad & filezilla here. If I need organization I make a text file. Old versions are deleted.

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Post by 6510 »

threeseed wrote: post #66
tzs wrote: post #55

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Before adding the newest fad features, maybe the should go back and add old fads that they missed. One big fad from 50+ years ago that I'd welcome is folders. I don't want to just have all my repositories appear in a flat list ordered by time since last update. I want to make folders so I can organize repositories by topic--just like I have my repositories organized in my computer.

My favourite fad of the last few decades is: sorting. You know because in Github you can't even sort your list of repositories.

HTML cant even sort

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by chiefsucker »

unsigner wrote: post #177

This reads like satire on the culture of trend-chasing, framework-of-the-week young developers that dominate in certain circles. Life imitates The Onion, Poe's law and all that. If you're not one of them, and feel alone and outdated - don't. There's enough graybeards toiling away at the boring software that supports the world, oblivious of what killed last week's React killer. This too shall pass.

It’s really fascinating how humanity can twist almost everything around and start seeing it from a bad perspective.

Maybe the author is a very engaged developer who already knows a huge part of the “boring software that supports the world”? Maybe he is so engaged that he wants to follow new developments in his professional area to get even better? Maybe he hopes that he will discover new and interesting algorithms that can help him improve his skills?

I think there is a point that simple algorithms are a better user interface, because of their predictability (although they show their flaws, like he specifically mentions with JS). Just try to remember how much discussion there was about Twitter’s feed and their move away from a classic timeline. They still haven’t abandoned the latter one.

But who knows in the end? Maybe your comment was just an attempt of satire a la The Onion? Personally I try not to prematurely judge and stay positive. To each his own I guess.

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Post by orf »

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #136
unixhero wrote: post #90

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Yes, but why?

"They violently break all the recent frontend best practices. Where is the React or Vie, SPA architecture, tons of JS? There should be a federal law prohibiting making fast and simple UIs so that nobody will have concerns that the UI frameworks war leads us to great future." - viach https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775549

Honestly the UI is confusing and pretty poor. Also looks terrible on Mobile.

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by petepete »

craigds wrote: post #192

Github's a work tool, not somewhere you go to have fun. This is a weird article because its main point is about the 'Trending page', which is something I've never heard of in the last 10 years of using github heavily. I'm vaguely aware there are some social features of github (you can apparently star repos, for instance) but I'd assume hardly anyone uses that stuff...

The beauty of Github is that it does a really good job of both.

Yes, we use it for work and it's excellent, but there are loads of fun, throwaway, educational, ridiculous and interesting projects on there.

The trending page was great because it offered a glimpse of what's out there and what people are talking about. If you don't care, that's fine - it won't ever affect you. I find it interesting for the same reasons I find HN interesting.

Github has had social features for a decade or more; I've been able to follow colleagues and friends, react to issues and conversations with emojis and upload photos of my dog. What else do I need? What does Facebook have that Github doesn't in this regard?

Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #180
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #110

Good, let the people using github for fun leave. Github is not meant to be fun, it's meant to be like a pen. A good pen can be enjoyable. Beautiful. You can feel attachement to it. But it is not built to be played with. By that I mean it's not its primary function, even if a creative or bored mind can use it for that. A good pen fullfills its intended purpose when it disapears from your mind while you use it, yieldin…

A lot of people (who may not even be professional programmers) are using GitHub for their hobby, i.e. "for fun". I don't think this is an invalid use case.

If you write for your hobby, the writing is your hobby, not the pen.

Nobody said, "I can't wait to click on githubs buttons!"

But they might have said, "I can't wait to make this code available".

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