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And another that it was made public again. Or neither, and just not delete shit that there was no need to delete.
The user said "delete this stuff". GitHub asked, "Are your sure?" User: "Yes". Seems like a good reason to delete it.
>There’s a confirmation box. It’s designed to stop users in a situation like mine from doing something stupid. It tells you that “You will permanently lose all stars and watchers of this repository.” That’s pretty scary. >The problem is that the box looks exactly the same for repos with no commits and stars and for repos with a decade-long history and 55k stargazers and watchers. And it says “Warning: this is a poten…
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I mean "refused to". There was absolutely no value to Microsoft in refusing to restore the deleted information, and there was no practical reason to have deleted it at all. Ultimately, it just amounts to contempt.
"I screwed up. By the way, it's your fault. I hope you realize how many people think more highly of your service because my project is there. Why wont you accept some money for a service you don't provide?" What's the value in capitulating to that? Also, a user saying "delete this stuff" is a pretty practical reason to do so. Indifference != contempt.
This is horrible -_-!!! But I wonder what would happen to GitHub Discussions in this situation? I now 100% feel necessary to build a Discord channel for OSS projects.
I get it, we should all be very cautious when doing destructive actions, but it's also specially easy to be confused by github's repository naming conventions and you're not seeing the actual repository you're making private, just it's name.
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I specifically dislike the "Lessons" section, as it throws all the blame on github and doesn't mention the seemingly obvious advice: "make sure you're not on autopilot when taking potentially dangerous actions, on github or any website". Yes, GitHub probably should show the stars in the warning UI, and hopefully that will prevent some of these mistakes. But GitHub makes it pretty hard to make this mistake already - t…
I suggest you read "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'". You'd learn a lot. https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error... My view is that expecting humans to stop making mistakes is much less effective than fixing the systems that amplify those mistakes into large, irreversible impacts.
I mean, it would be disappointing to read it to find it summarizes exactly to what you just said.
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What could the author have done with this post that would take it from being “blaming” into “giving feedback in an earnest intent to save others future pain”?
Acknowledge their own agency and responsibility. Literally stop blaming with language like “GitHub deleted…”
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What could the author have done with this post that would take it from being “blaming” into “giving feedback in an earnest intent to save others future pain”?
Drop passive aggressive comments like the one about how they're going to stop wearing their GitHub T-Shirt because of how GitHub subjected them to the same treatment that lesser and more unworthy projects would have received. Even using words like "future pain" is pretty crazy. "We lost 54k GitHub stars"? They're imaginary internet points! Cope.
What? Can anyone explain this? Are people so desperate about github stars these days that they’re willing to pay Microsoft for them?
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I’m curious which statements from the article carried that tone?
I think in the "But theres a confirmation box, right?" and if I had to quote a portion I'd quote >>"To paraphrase, the box tells you “You’re about to demolish a house. If there are any people inside, they will all die”. But it doesn’t include anything specific to break you out of your auto-pilot mode if you’ve confused the address and think you’re looking at an empty house." >>"The dialog should be more contextual an…
Do you agree that, hyperbolic metaphors aside, the UI improvement suggestion is a good one?