That is really weird. It's clearly a very popular feature. Part of me thinks that their metrics are broken for some reason and that this has been incorrectly flagged as low usage
Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
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#72The 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…
I have run across several projects I wanted to use but whose main documentation was not in a language I spoke well enough. It would be nice to only show repositories documented in languages I know well enough to interpret reasonable demands.
Totally agree! Documented language is a great filter feature. I want more filters, not fewer.
The fact that this is the only filter they’ve added in years, and it is next to a different “language” drop-down doesn’t suggest that they’re really interested in making filtering actually helpful — but that they’re trying to solve one specific label being a source of confusion by adding another button.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
The social network aspect was a means to an end ("get enterprise customers"), but the needs of enterprise customers differ from the needs of open source communities. Hence the "indecision"
ironic, as a person who was very warm to GitHub previously and after attempting to coldly assess their offering for enterprise: I found it to be quite lacking compared to Gitlab. I can't imagine choosing GitHub except for cool points or if you're working very closely with code that isn't yours primarily. For example: Things like SAML and SCIM are very important to enterprise customers and it feels extremely jank on G…
We're on Azure DevOps (despite deploying to AWS) and it's been weirdly good. I'm a little sad that Microsoft's focus is shifting to GitHub. We're evaluating GitLab as another possible all-in-one solution.
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#74I love the trending tab, but I visit them only 10 times a month. It's enought for me to get the benefit of it.
I suspect lany use it this way. Obviously compared to other tabs, it's going to be very low traffic. But in this case, traffic is a bad metric.
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#75I've been a big fan of the trending page, and have found many cool projects from there, as well as been very happy when my project has made it to the list, which usually brings on a big wave of new users!
As someone who's building apps and actions to run on GitHub, I've always found the discoverability of apps to be lacking. The marketplace is nothing but a big list of things, in seemingly random order. Compare this to the Slack App "store" which has a much better discoverability and feel to it.
I which it had reviews, trends, new highlights etc, to make it easier to discover new apps, and for app developers like myself to get a chance to attract more users.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#76Why deprecate this at all? It’s not like the logic around trending repositoriesis likely to change in the next 10 years or so.
If they do this it must be for some other reason than upkeep.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#77Ah yes. The act of learning about something awesome by the message saying it's going away.
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#78Why deprecate this at all? It’s not like the logic around trending repositoriesis likely to change in the next 10 years or so. If they do this it must be for some other reason than upkeep.
I and others are guessing it's a Digg-style sabotage in favor of ad-driven, corporate-friendly traffic sculpting. Worked great for Digg, right?
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#79Since there are less and less ways to discover cool repos, recently I’ve made an open source extension to get recommendations on GitHub. You can check it out https://indexstorm.com/git-rec
Re: Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
#80The 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…
The language filter was actually a suggestion I made (I’m probably not the only one but I sent them feedback emails and everything).
The reason is that at some point a few years ago, the trending list was filled with Chinese repositories which makes it useless if you don’t speak the language. The language filter fixed it for me and made the page useful again.