Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.
Everyday there are fewer and fewer pleasures available to people in this troubled world, let them have this.
How to track and display profile views on GitHub
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Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#72I did this for Facebook back in the day back when you used to be able to post your own images! Back in the early, early days. I got a few blogs to write it up because it tracked the referring URL so you could send out special links to people and then track how often they viewed your profile.
I miss being young and having a seemingly infinite amount of time on my hands...
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Definitely possible. Could effect repos that are pinned, content of profile blurb on the left, etc. If I had access to where folks were coming from, I could gauge how visible or discoverable my profile was from other sources, my blog, etc.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#74Image hit counters! Who's going to build the github developer web ring? We need all the old things back.
Were webrings implemented using image tags as well? My memory is faint, I remember having to copy/paste quite large a snippet of code, but don’t remember the actual implementation.
It’s probably infinitely more simple than I think it was.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#75Unrelated 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.
Writing tests for this feature might be difficult.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#76Unrelated 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”…
Would this Apple Watch app be able to detect increased heart rate and brisk hand movements? Asking for a friend.
Yes, that's how you trigger Siri.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#77Image hit counters! Who's going to build the github developer web ring? We need all the old things back.
[inserts gif of visitor counter spinning out of control]
[also adds in some "under construction" gifs]
I really wish I had some way to access my original AOL website. So many memories... and web ring links...
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I mean, they built and added camo like a decade ago to allow your reaction gifs in code review to work over HTTPS. The shitposting is now a fact of life
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#79Image hit counters! Who's going to build the github developer web ring? We need all the old things back.
Were webrings implemented using image tags as well? My memory is faint, I remember having to copy/paste quite large a snippet of code, but don’t remember the actual implementation. It’s probably infinitely more simple than I think it was.
There was a whole block of pre-formatted HTML you would have to insert into your website. When you clicked on a button to navigate the ring it would like to a cgi script on the "owners" domain to take you to the next site.
Edit: Down this [1] page a little bit you can see an example of the code you would have to copy/paste
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19970616173036/http://www.acmepe...