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Re: GitHub Community Forum

#31

Man, the design of this is so unpolished that I actually find it a bit stressful to look at. The lack of grid adherence, the strange hierarchy of font sizes, it doesn't seem up to Github's normal high standards of clean and sensible design choices. But then I guess it's new and they'll refine it.

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Re: GitHub Community Forum

#32

Man, the design of this is so unpolished that I actually find it a bit stressful to look at. The lack of grid adherence, the strange hierarchy of font sizes, it doesn't seem up to Github's normal high standards of clean and sensible design choices. But then I guess it's new and they'll refine it.

Also the menu on mobile has the search overlapping the title. Looks like this project bypassed qa.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#33
I'll take this as an opportunity to shill my GitHub replacement: https://meta.sr.ht/

If you're a pessimist like me you've kept a mental list of demerits (like this weird forum) that add up to a picture of a slowly dying platform. Join mine instead and postpone the cold grip of death!

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#35
post #11

I really dislike it when companies use a new extension like "github.community" instead of a subdomain like "community.github.com" because there is no real way to know if the site is a phishing attempt or not. Getting people used to accept going to another site seems very bad for security. Especially when there are already domains like http://github.co (notice the .CO instead of .COM) that don't belong to the trademar…

My immediate thought is that they did this for browser security reasons, like how they use github.io for Github Pages.

But isn't that governed by the same origin policy, which cares about specific hosts (so a subdomain would be equally effective)?

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#36

Man, the design of this is so unpolished that I actually find it a bit stressful to look at. The lack of grid adherence, the strange hierarchy of font sizes, it doesn't seem up to Github's normal high standards of clean and sensible design choices. But then I guess it's new and they'll refine it.

I think they use a product called lithium and did not build their own.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#37
post #18
post #4

Ehhhh, so, like. GitHub is big on open source stuff, supposedly. Love that they went with lithium stuff instead of some of the more open source solutions that could've used the manpower from GitHub.

Interestingly, one of the "new subcommunities" (linked in the footer) seems to be Discourse: https://education.github.community/ And the Atom discussion area is too (but that's been up for a while): https://discuss.atom.io/

Also https://platform.github.community/

I wonder what was their experience with Discourse like.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#38

I'll take this as an opportunity to shill my GitHub replacement: https://meta.sr.ht/ If you're a pessimist like me you've kept a mental list of demerits (like this weird forum) that add up to a picture of a slowly dying platform. Join mine instead and postpone the cold grip of death!

Who would win? The biggest "social network" for developers OR a platform by some random dude on the internet?

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#39

I'll take this as an opportunity to shill my GitHub replacement: https://meta.sr.ht/ If you're a pessimist like me you've kept a mental list of demerits (like this weird forum) that add up to a picture of a slowly dying platform. Join mine instead and postpone the cold grip of death!

Who would win? The biggest "social network" for developers OR a platform by some random dude on the internet?

I wouldn't be so sure of GitHub if I were you. How long has it been the biggest player? It wasn't so long ago SourceForge was dominant and look what happened to it. GitHub is beholden to their investors, and it will make decisions that benefit them at the expense of their users. Services like Pinboard thrive as some random dude on the internet. I use a business model that doesn't have the same risks to longevity that GitHub does.

Re: GitHub Community Forum

#40
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

github.community isn't. It sends you to github.com regardless, since their login is there. github.com sees you're already logged in, and redirects back, passing auth.

That suggests it’s bypassing OAuth—with OAuth you’d get a “GitHub Community wants access to X, Y and Z” interstitial.

Unless it's by the same authors as GitHub, and has access to the same OAuth client id/secrets as the master GitHub app.
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