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GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore

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Post by mytailorisrich »

vsroy wrote: post #58

I see a lot of disagreement with this post but I think it makes good points. It's hard for small developers who make useful things to get noticed on GitHub. The only hope is to get retweeted by some established user. This seems silly, we need better ways of making sure people can find/discover good software.

GitHub offers a managed Git repo with project/bug tracking features.

Although they've added plenty of trendy social network-y features that's what it is as its core.

There's no silver bullet for "getting noticed" whether on Github or outside of Github.

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Post by zatkin »

floatingatoll wrote: post #61

GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance. I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself. Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pande…

GitLab? :)

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Post by kreetx »

nikanj wrote: post #44
root_axis wrote: post #18

Hard 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.

I would like end-to-end encrypted repositories even they can't read - like keybase!

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Post by Animats »

I believe the turning point was when they changed how the ranking system on the Trending page worked.

I had no idea Github had a "trending" mechanism. I just use it as a free place to store code repositories, of which I have about 20. About the only social feature of Github I use is "Issues", to report or deal with bugs.

In fact, I rarely visit the site with a browser. Most usage is from "git". Which is what it's supposed to be for.

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

floatingatoll wrote: post #61

GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance. I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself. Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pande…

Me and the rest of the cool gang have been using GitLab for a while now.

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Post by 0XAFFE »

floatingatoll wrote: post #61

GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance. I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself. Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pande…

Sourcehut?

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Post by Animats »

caymanjim wrote: post #9
lwheelock wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work. A-men.

I recently set up a LinkedIn profile after avoiding them for many years, and was horrified to discover that there's now a "Facebook wall" feature, replete with all the horrible political conversations that made me abandon Facebook. It's totally in-your-face, too; it's the default home page and the default Android app page. I don't want to see what people I've connected on LinkedIn have to say about, well, anything. I…

Did not know that. Glad I dumped LinkedIn two years ago.

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Post by blueflow »

floatingatoll wrote: post #61

GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance. I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself. Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pande…

Projects are settting up individual cgit, Gitlab or Bitbucket instances. Roughly half of the projects i contributed to now have their primary upstream outside from Github.
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