GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
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Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#2Most of the folks have already mentioned on the thread; it's a pretty cool place to find something that one does not know even exists.
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''' Hey folks - Martin from GitHub here.
Thanks for all the feedback on the Trending page. Given the feedback here, it’s clear we need to look again at the plan to deprecate this. The team is going to re-evaluate and see if we can come up with some other options.
'''
[0]:https://github.com/community/community/discussions/31644#dis...
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#3I've never seen the Trending page before, but it looks like another take on the the "Explore" page. I wonder, do people generally go to GitHub just to browse around? But if people find value in it, then who am I to say.
By the way, it's deprecating. Depreciation is something else.
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#4From reading the discussion about this issue here and on Reddit, it seems like most people weren’t aware that this page even existed - but the people who do know about it find it extremely useful. So instead of removing it, how about promoting it more?
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#5I've never seen the Trending page before, but it looks like another take on the the "Explore" page. I wonder, do people generally go to GitHub just to browse around? But if people find value in it, then who am I to say. By the way, it's deprecating. Depreciation is something else.
The explore page is personalized, meaning it shows you repositories that are similar or related to ones you’ve already seen. It’s useful, but the trending page shows overall trends on GitHub and is a great way to expand your horizons and discover new things happening in the open source community.
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#6From reading the discussion about this issue here and on Reddit, it seems like most people weren’t aware that this page even existed - but the people who do know about it find it extremely useful. So instead of removing it, how about promoting it more?
As someone who didn’t know it existed. I concur.
It’s just a random link at the top of the page and I’ve never had any incentive to click it or look at it. But now that I see people find it useful it makes me want to check it out daily for a while to see what shows up on there.
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#7The most effective thing the team behind this feature did to drive adoption was to threaten to remove it. More people know about this feature now than ever would have through traditional marketing tactics.
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#8I am incredibly glad they are keeping it around for now -- for now being the key word here. From the way they worded it, doesn't seem like they were prepared for the feedback they received, in terms of (paraphrased) "the few people who used the page seem to love it". How do they not know such an important metric? Shouldn't they be able to measure the number of recurring users? Shouldn't that metric tell them that instead of shutting it down they may just need to promote it better?
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#9I've never seen the Trending page before, but it looks like another take on the the "Explore" page. I wonder, do people generally go to GitHub just to browse around? But if people find value in it, then who am I to say. By the way, it's deprecating. Depreciation is something else.
> By the way, it's deprecating. Depreciation is something else.
This one is weird to me too.
If anything, Trending trending with this news has caused its appreciation
Re: GitHub backtracks on deprecating the trending tabs page
#10I've never seen the Trending page before, but it looks like another take on the the "Explore" page. I wonder, do people generally go to GitHub just to browse around? But if people find value in it, then who am I to say. By the way, it's deprecating. Depreciation is something else.
"Explore" actually came _after_ "Trending".
It seemed, to me at least, that when "Explore" was originally created, it was intended to eventually replace the "Trending" page, using more personalised information. And the "Trending" page did languish, with more frequent breakages and less frequent updates, since they created the other.