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Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by conroy »

yaddayadda wrote: post #31

Another GitHub nuisance: I'm a huge fan of pinboard.in and use the Firefox popup bookmarklet quite a bit but github repositories [1] won't let me bookmark them with the bookmarklet. GitHub repositories are literally the only pages I've found the I haven't been able to use the pinboard bookmarklet, and it's been that way with every single GitHub repository I've tried to pinboard. [1] Strangely github.io pages bookmark…

The bookmarklet fails due to GitHub's content security policies[0], which disable inline scripts. I'd suggest installing the Pinboard browser extension to get around those limitations.

[0] https://github.com/blog/1477-content-security-policy

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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pearjuice wrote: post #25

Completely unrelated, but I couldn't stop laughing when I finished reading the article and saw "David Gay" as the post author at the bottom. Every time he introduces himself, reactions might range from hilarity to anger. Good for him to live with the pride of his ancestors and not changing his last name. Probably why the domain is oddshocks.com instead of his full name; I see it easily ending up on the wrong side of…

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Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by opendais »

jordigh wrote: post #20
sauravt wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How else would you want it to be ?

Allow me to actually change this in the code. I don't really get github. They hold everyone's code and encourage everyone to share code, but they don't share their own. This is why I left bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/3054/make-bitbucket-...

Have you tried https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce/ ?

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by arebours »

cwalcott wrote: post #11

If GitHub profiles really are becoming the "new resume", I think users are need more control over them. Certainly sorting projects is a good start.

I think it would be awesome to be able to commit README for your user page. It would resolve the sorting problem too - you could just list your projects the way you like it (even with description for each of them).

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by j2kun »

Maybe my repos are a bit more popular (they're connected to a blog I write), but I've noticed that my best repos get pushed to the top by how often others star them.

Still, couldn't you use the username.github.io to feature your repos? Or at least have a prominent link from a github profile to that page?

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by bnferguson »

patcon wrote: post #21

Maybe open an issue here: https://github.com/isaacs/github Visit this link after the one above to find a github easter egg :) https://github.com/contact

Haha, not intended to be an easter egg at all. That message happens for any non-Organization-owned, non-private, non-owned-by-you repo.

eg hit https://github.com/mbostock/d3 then https://github.com/contact

Just reads a bit funny in the case of https://github.com/isaacs/github :)

Re: Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects

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Post by oddshocks »

randunel wrote: post #19

He sounds like my project manager, when adding a new feature just by mentioning it during a demo, and sees our faces: "What I'm asking wouldn't be hard at all" :)) Unless you're intimately involved with the project or a guru in similar projects, you've got no idea whether any feature would be hard / simple, time-consuming/interesting.

I didn't mean to devalue the challenge of implementing and testing a new feature. All I'm saying is that it wouldn't require much problem solving. It'd just be a sorted list, perhaps with the ability to reorder and resize items with some JavaScript. The GitHub devs are obviously skilled coders, and have many JavaScript ninjas among them.
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