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Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by stanislavb »

favorited wrote: post #26

The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days. Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Language" dropdown, which AFAICT is the only real change from the last few years. It's not that I think being able to search by spoken language is bad or anything, it just screams of a middle manager trying to "solve" the important problem of a few people being conf…

May I suggest giving a try to https://www.libhunt.com ?

A project of mine that tracks project mentions (in real time) on Hacker News and Reddit to determine trending repos.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by pmontra »

quyleanh wrote: post #3

I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.

Anecdotally I'm not sure I ever used our knew about the Trending and Explore pages. I land on GitHub following links from searches, HN, etc.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by drdd »

favorited wrote: post #26

The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days. Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Language" dropdown, which AFAICT is the only real change from the last few years. It's not that I think being able to search by spoken language is bad or anything, it just screams of a middle manager trying to "solve" the important problem of a few people being conf…

Same trending is the main reason for visiting gh. I always find amazing repos there

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by water-your-self »

pmontra wrote: post #63
quyleanh wrote: post #3

I check this page everyday. A lot of my starred repos come from this page. For me, the Trending page is even more useful than Explore page. Still wondering why Explore page has more spotlight than Trending page.

Anecdotally I'm not sure I ever used our knew about the Trending and Explore pages. I land on GitHub following links from searches, HN, etc.

Likewise. Im only looking at someone's repo as a terminal state, typically.

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by mg »

Sounds like a fun weekend project to replicate it?

The GitHub search API seems to provide everything that is needed. It returns 30 repos per query and allows 30 * 60 * 24 = 43200 queries per day. So one could track the top 43200 * 30 = 1296000 repos.

That is enough to track all repos with more then 20 stars:

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=stars:%3E1000&s...

But maybe it has already been done? This looks like it:

https://ossinsight.io/#trending-repos

Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage

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Post by psytrx »

stanislavb wrote: post #61
favorited wrote: post #26

The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days. Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Language" dropdown, which AFAICT is the only real change from the last few years. It's not that I think being able to search by spoken language is bad or anything, it just screams of a middle manager trying to "solve" the important problem of a few people being conf…

May I suggest giving a try to https://www.libhunt.com ? A project of mine that tracks project mentions (in real time) on Hacker News and Reddit to determine trending repos.

I really like the concept, good job!

Just a nitpick: I'd like to see the repo org or author in the repo listings. The top 20 is currently listing 3 different stable-diffusion repos with no obvious differences (except for the ranking scores).

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