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GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#82Please don't ruin something that works fine by adding unnecessary crap. The only thing Microsoft has to do, is to take a good look at GitLab so they know what they absolutely NOT should do.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#83GitHub'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…
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Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#84Probably it's because of not actually caring that much for things that are fun anyway, but why would I want my version control system to be fun? Does this guy complain that his hammer fails to entertain him when pounding nails?
Well, if we're going with tool analogies, you probably would complain if your tool box is such that you have no idea what tools are crammed inside. Github has grown huge and it's getting increasingly hard to keep track of repos. You see something useful, but in a few months when you need it you just can't find it anymore. Stars are completely useless way of bookmarking interesting code once you star more than a few d…
yeah, although bookmarking urls with tags in whatever bookmarking tool you're using is pretty good, or forking a repository that you're interested in. I suppose if I had an aversion to doing either of those things I would be upset at GitHub for not giving me a better way to keep track of things.
But I have no such aversion.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#85I've always just used github as a source control repo. It's also useful that Google links open source projects when I search for things.
If the trending page disappeared today I wouldn't notice. In fact, the only time I ever read about it is when I stumble across blog posts that mention it.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#86>I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub.I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work. >project chat IRC/Slack/Discord already exist >or even DMs A new avenue for recruiter spam? No thank you.
Agreed. HN and reddit are way better at helping me find repos that are relevant to my skill set and interest. It’s like the author doesn’t even try to utilize these other social spaces that have already largely solved this problem. Sometimes I come across people whose idea of a perfect world is an app that knows exactly what to show them and when without any curiosity or effort, and it blows my mind. That is my hell.
I've spent a few hours on Github trying to find projects. The explore feature is absolutely useless.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#87Recommending github projects based on the github projects you already are interested in could be a problem that can be solved by a recommender engine like the ones from https://movielens.org/
It doesn't work well, because people use GitHub's starring feature in many different ways. Star rating of movies is pretty comparable between users once you standardize it. Not for GitHub stars.
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#88Hard 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.
And a monorail!
Re: GitHub isn't fun anymore
#89Please don't ruin something that works fine by adding unnecessary crap. The only thing Microsoft has to do, is to take a good look at GitLab so they know what they absolutely NOT should do.
What, make good money building loads of features people actually need? To me it feels like GitHub has stood nearly still the past 5 years. I didn't even consider GitHub when choosing a solution for our business and 5 years ago I thought GitHub was the greatest open core business in the world.
Whatever they did with that huge investment, it wasn't building value. The investors probably got their money back and then some when Microsoft bought it though..