I’ve been using GH for over a about a decade. I didn’t even know that trending feature existed.
Maybe the author is evaluating the tool by a wrong metric?
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#342I'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 don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity
If they did, it doesn't sound like it would affect you if you already keep your repos locally anyway.
Your point is totally valid, but I don't think that means that GitHub is a bad storage medium. It does mean that it's smart to always keep local copies of your code, as is true for anything one might keep in the "cloud".
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#343I’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".
Why do you think this is specifically a 'western society' thing? Browse Japanese sites and online tools and there is just as much gamification and 'thrilling' graphics and animation - if not more. Github looks like a technical white-paper in comparison.
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#344Hard pass on the suggestion to add more social network features. Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety, we need less of that not more.
Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.
>maybe blockchain.
but git is already a blockchain. each commit is a "block", with a reference back to the previous commit.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#345Hard pass on the suggestion to add more social network features. Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety, we need less of that not more.
Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.
Don't forget to write monoliths, have monorepos, only use PostgreSQL for all database needs, and use Kubernetes even when you don't need it.
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#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find github search to be immensely useful. Filter by file extension and you can pretty much search the open source world for some API in a language.
Talking about search: Our company uses GitHub enterprise. We have 1000+ repositories, each repo for a serverless function. Github's search is pathetically broken, I had to download all 1000 repositories in my Mac and search for a dependencies via Vscode. Surprisingly Vscode is blazing fast.
Text search in vscode is done by ripgrep[1].
[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-imp...
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#347Oh man, I still remember the day I was #1 on the old GitHub trending page with ffsend. That isn't so fun anymore these days.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#348I'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…
Kudos. You've found a perfect solution that works for you and doesn't try to move society in a particular direction. Even better, you're not trying to stop others from moving society in their favored direction. Win-win, right?
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#349I'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…
Are these problems you've actually had? I have various stuff on GitHub and none of this has remotely happened to me. What you're describing does not jibe with my lived experience of what GitHub is actually like.
You don't really need to experience it to see how this one day might happen to you. Here is a recent example with RuboCop: https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop/issues/8091
"Cop" suddenly became a problematic word and you can read the comments in that issue thread. Imagine you have some repo like "PinkKitty", and then someone blows himself up dressed in pink and pink becomes a symbol of Jihad or White Supremacy or what have you. The same kind of people will then come to your repo and harass you and your unpaid work.
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#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
Social network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.
>maybe blockchain. but git is already a blockchain. each commit is a "block", with a reference back to the previous commit.
There was this one guy, whom was a cryptocurrency fanatic but not a developer, who tried to convince me to get involved in a "blockchain code database for developers". I told him that Git uses a blockchain, and he simply couldn't accept that a blockchain has been used for years on something that isn't cool or possible to monetize.
It's pretty funny how people still think that a blockchain is this magical thing, yet I'm pretty sure anyone on HN is capable of writing a blockchain in an an hour or two. Maybe even less than that.