Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
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#2Maybe I'm deviating from the general consensus here, but to me the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern in business and undesired in such a highly useful utility service.
Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
#3Link for settings:
https://github.com/settings/profile
``` Contributions & Activity
Make profile private and hide activity
Enabling this will hide your contributions and activity from your GitHub profile and from social features like followers, stars, feeds, leaderboards and releases.
Include private contributions on my profile
Your contribution graph, achievements, and activity overview will show your private contributions without revealing any repository or organization information. Read more. ```
Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
#4Maybe I'm deviating from the general consensus here, but to me the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern in business and undesired in such a highly useful utility service.
But the kids, they like it.
Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
#5Maybe I'm deviating from the general consensus here, but to me the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern in business and undesired in such a highly useful utility service.
The discovery features resemble "social network-isms" but have a lot of utility. Also, GitHub is obviously not only about business, and the symbiosis of what it offers for businesses as well as open source users is important to its identity in my opinion.
That all having been said, I do not disagree that in most cases, the "social coding" thing is a misnomer. GitHub's main contribution, in my opinion, was actually just putting source control and source code at the forefront of the project forge concept. Sourceforge felt like a nice website for projects to organize, but code storage felt at best like an afterthought. GitHub's forks and pull requests are what really make it shine, and the rest is mostly either bonus or noise.
Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
#6While looking over my GitHub account settings just now, I noticed that you can now designate a successor:
> By clicking "Add Successor" below, I acknowledge that I am the owner of the @ttmc account, and am authorizing GitHub to transfer content within that account to my GitHub Successor, designated below, in the event of my death. I understand that..."
Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
#7Maybe I'm deviating from the general consensus here, but to me the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern in business and undesired in such a highly useful utility service.
Eh, public stars and forks on OSS repos is a really valuable indicator of whether to seriously consider using a library IMO.
Not like, 3k vs 8k, but like 200 vs 0... help me understand if this is this a hobby project someone wrote and abandoned in a few days.
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#9While looking over my GitHub account settings just now, I noticed that you can now designate a successor: > By clicking "Add Successor" below, I acknowledge that I am the owner of the @ttmc account, and am authorizing GitHub to transfer content within that account to my GitHub Successor, designated below, in the event of my death. I understand that..." https://github.com/settings/admin
@Dang, when will we be able to designate successors to our HN accounts?
Re: Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
#10Maybe I'm deviating from the general consensus here, but to me the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern in business and undesired in such a highly useful utility service.
> the social-network-isms in GitHub are an anti-pattern
I don't know, as the "social coding" platform never claimed to be anything different.