GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
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Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#2Is this an April Fools joke? I've never seen anyone who gave a fuck about their contribution graph and record streak, except for devs who developped clever git repos that make your contribution graph show pixel art (which is pretty awesome).
I want to say if you feel pressure when looking at your contribution graph, it's all in your head and you should take a break because you're clearly not thinking straight.
Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#3I guess I can see this being an issue, but as someone who generally has a pretty "green" contribution chart, I find people look more at how many stars I have more than anything.
Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#4Is this an April Fools joke? I've never seen anyone who gave a fuck about their contribution graph and record streak, except for devs who developped clever git repos that make your contribution graph show pixel art (which is pretty awesome). I want to say if you feel pressure when looking at your contribution graph, it's all in your head and you should take a break because you're clearly not thinking straight.
Reading the first sentence, this is definitely an april fools joke.
Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#5I guess I can see this being an issue, but as someone who generally has a pretty "green" contribution chart, I find people look more at how many stars I have more than anything.
Which is another discussion all together :-\
I used to be all about stars, not very explicitly, but it definitely went into my decision-making process when working on side projects whether I wanted to admit it or not.
Sadly this has caused me to not ship silly-little-experiments-that-no-one-will-care-about like I used to before my "stars." The bar's a little higher now.
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#6Have I made pithy comments or tiny modifications occasionally to keep a streak alive? Maybe...
but that was pretty much limited to my earlier days of using Github. Now, I think one or two days of quality commits a week (on personal projects) is far superior to straining to make tiny changes for the sake of a streak.
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#7>> The contribution graph and the statistics on it, prominent on everyone's profile, basically rewards people for doing work on as many different days as possible, generally making more contributions, and making contributions on multiple days in a row without a break.
If you're concerned about those things, you need to do some deep introspection and fix whatever issues you have inside yourself.
Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#8Is this an April Fools joke? I've never seen anyone who gave a fuck about their contribution graph and record streak, except for devs who developped clever git repos that make your contribution graph show pixel art (which is pretty awesome). I want to say if you feel pressure when looking at your contribution graph, it's all in your head and you should take a break because you're clearly not thinking straight.
If you are right and nobody cares about it, that's a good reason to remove it. If you are wrong and people care about it, maybe the poster has a point.
Nevertheless, I think there is a point in having a coarse activity indicator in order to assess how likely somebody is going to respond to issues or pull requests.
Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#9"Stop rewarding those who worker harder than me"
Re: GitHub contribution graph can be harmful to contributors
#10The reason sites do gamelike features like this is because it makes some people care and therefore participate more. Setting a metric which causes poor quality contributions or is damaging to participants is a bad thing. I'd guess a steak of 4 day weeks would be more productive.
Personally if I cared about this metric I would just set something up which held onto Friday's commits and pushed them out over the weekend.