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On some days, half or more of the top 25 listed repos were Asian language.
Today, anectdotally, there are zero repos in Asian languages in the Trending Today page.
This might be a factor. Politics? Ethnocentricism?
I had no idea that GitHub was supposed to (or trying to be) fun. If you're going to non-curated "trending" feeds looking for things that are already popular to pay attention to, you're not only wasting your finite free time but you're training yourself to be a follower. Stop this nonsense immediately. Use your talents and build something great. If you never check the "trending" page on GitHub again, you will have a b…
The point of the “trending” page wasn’t that it always showed you React. It showed you tiny repositories that had exploded in popularity that day.
I'm not trying to be an asshole: focus is both incredibly hard and the only way to build great things.
There are a countless number of things you're better off doing than checking out new random shit. Those people have already had their success. What are you bringing?
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This so much. Another pet peeve of mine: GitHub is terrible for the workflow that Git was originally designed for. Specifically, the issue that there's no good way to review patch series. The key here is presenting a series of patches as a whole, but allowing reviews on individual commits of the series.
Assuming that we're talking about the same thing, this is possible in GH from the `Files` tab on the PR screen.
Also, it's difficult to tell which comment is associated with which commit.
I've sworn off Github for my own toy projects. The code I write off the clock is a form of escapism, I don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity, nor do I want to triage issues from people taking issue with how I've named things, or forcing me to adopt an ultimately meaningless boilerplate CoC. I don't want to have to write a novel on why I'm not a racist or a fascis…
I've sworn off Github for my own toy projects. The code I write off the clock is a form of escapism, I don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity, nor do I want to triage issues from people taking issue with how I've named things, or forcing me to adopt an ultimately meaningless boilerplate CoC. I don't want to have to write a novel on why I'm not a racist or a fascis…
I've sworn off Github for my own toy projects. The code I write off the clock is a form of escapism, I don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity, nor do I want to triage issues from people taking issue with how I've named things, or forcing me to adopt an ultimately meaningless boilerplate CoC. I don't want to have to write a novel on why I'm not a racist or a fascis…
I follow several hundred repos. Only the 25 most active are listed in the sidebar. There is no way to browse the hundereds not listed there for notification tallies.
THERFORE Github now hides notifications from small and nascent repos from me, and that's definitely not fun.
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…
Tangential: what is up with this inflationary expectation that everything should be "fun" and "exciting" and "thrilling"? I feel like western society as a whole is thinking more and more in terms of a six year old. For adults, there lies incredible satisfaction in mastering any but the most exploitative professions or jobs and fulfilling them dutifully, even if they are be no means "fun".
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It's actually open source itself. I was pretty shocked to find out that GitHub isn't (it's the face of open source!).
Also owned by Microsoft. I mean, I get the "new" Microsoft. And I get that this is mostly a street-cred move by them, and they'll try to not mess it up by interfering with it. But still. That's now. What happens when the next shake-up comes and there's a push by the accountants to make money off everything, that's the important bit. It's like Atlassian taking over Trello. They'll mess it up, it's just a matter of whe…
Before that they were their own company. And as far as I know, the source was never OSS to begin with. Microsoft didn't swoop in and lock it down. It was already like that.
In case anybody wondered if Github was closed-source because of Microsoft.