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Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by xwdv »

levosmetalo wrote: post #38
oefrha wrote: post #28

Unrelated badge ideas: 1. Write a watcher that periodically reports whether you’re actively using a coding-related app (Terminal, VS Code, etc.) to a server you control, and serve a “coding”/“not coding” badge on your profile page; (could even detect which project you’re working on, and display that;) 2. Write an Apple Watch app that periodically reports whether you’re asleep, and serve a “sleeping”/“awake”/“unknown”…

3. Write an integration to the local cemetery, and after funeral is successfully detected serve "alive/dead" badge on the profile page.

4. A badge that shows how much money you have earned YTD

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by victords »

jomar wrote: post #34
geerlingguy wrote: post #4

First I heard about a readme for your profile page. So the facebook-ification of GitHub progresses? At what point is LinkedIn going to be merged into GitHub? (Only partially /s)

It's just gone live in the last day or so. The designer talked about it here a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/pifafu/status/1265773172520914944 Personally I don't see much reason for this to be implemented via a git repository (rather than a text field in a database, like the existing Bio text), other than "we're GitHub, everything's a git repository, so why not". At the moment, it's a single-file repository. Per…

Are there malicious reasons for doing that?

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by ebg13 »

> As part of recent design changes, GitHub has introduced READMEs for profiles

This is a weird new myth that might just highlight the difficulty of discoverability. GitHub has had user profile READMEs for years. The difference is just where the README shows and what the name of the repo is supposed to be.

You could already create a ".github.io" repo that governs what shows up when visiting .github.io" rel="nofollow">https://.github.io

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by andrew_ »

memexy wrote: post #58
andrew_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bad practice to assume your ethos is the only one at play. I'd hardly call taking a look at _where_ people are coming from to view your Github profile a "vanity" thing. A view of referrers could be extremely useful in tuning one's developer presence and visibility. That could come in handy when job-seeking, or trying to spread the word about your services and/or company. Both of which Github is widely used for.

Have you ever gotten a job because of your GitHub profile?

Yes. I was sought and employed specifically because of the work visible on my Github profile from 2017 - 2019. My body of work on Github directly contributed to my candidacy for the job I currently hold.

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by codingdave »

andrew_ wrote: post #25
ddevault wrote: post #3

Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.

Bad practice to assume your ethos is the only one at play. I'd hardly call taking a look at _where_ people are coming from to view your Github profile a "vanity" thing. A view of referrers could be extremely useful in tuning one's developer presence and visibility. That could come in handy when job-seeking, or trying to spread the word about your services and/or company. Both of which Github is widely used for.

Sure, but using tracking pixels will always show your github profile as the referer, won't it?

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by memexy »

andrew_ wrote: post #65
memexy wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever gotten a job because of your GitHub profile?

Yes. I was sought and employed specifically because of the work visible on my Github profile from 2017 - 2019. My body of work on Github directly contributed to my candidacy for the job I currently hold.

So how would having view statistics helped? Would you have curated your GitHub account differently if you knew who was visiting your profile?

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by f311a »

jomar wrote: post #34
geerlingguy wrote: post #4

First I heard about a readme for your profile page. So the facebook-ification of GitHub progresses? At what point is LinkedIn going to be merged into GitHub? (Only partially /s)

It's just gone live in the last day or so. The designer talked about it here a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/pifafu/status/1265773172520914944 Personally I don't see much reason for this to be implemented via a git repository (rather than a text field in a database, like the existing Bio text), other than "we're GitHub, everything's a git repository, so why not". At the moment, it's a single-file repository. Per…

You can rewrite GitHub history and keep one commit. I was doing it for GitHub pages, because I didn't want to expose my blog edits.

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Post by Geezus_42 »

dom96 wrote: post #57
geerlingguy wrote: post #4

First I heard about a readme for your profile page. So the facebook-ification of GitHub progresses? At what point is LinkedIn going to be merged into GitHub? (Only partially /s)

> So the facebook-ification of GitHub progresses? GitHub's premise has always been "social coding". They should indeed become more social, that may or may not remind you of Facebook but I personally have wanted more social features out of GitHub for a while.

It depends what "social features" you are referring to. I go to github for code not pictures of people's cats, meme, etc. If github became more like a Facebook feed where people just shit post their lives all day it would become useless from my imo.
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