Yes, clearly this is a misuse of a platform that offers GitHub pages with custom domain support so that users can host their own static sites or blogs.

I mean, it’s a also a platform with an embeddable “gists” feature ostensibly for code snippets, but frequently used to access notes of all types. Clearly anyone who has ever typed a plaintext gist is also misusing GitHub.

/s

Dude, why do you care? It’s not a “project” in a traditional sense but it’s not hurting anything and if someone wants to store a cool readme in their account, why does it matter?

Still begs the question how come it's more attractive to put something onto GH pages rather than creating a simple web site from scratch. Yes I know - buying a domain, hosting, SSL, HTML/CSS etc is considerably more effort even for a static site. But should we be satisfied with the de-facto monopolization of the Web and its attention economy and tracking business model? Part of the problem seems also that folks merely strive for "me too" good-enough web presences and experiences on platforms.

Your comment reminds me to the classic when Dropbox was first shown here

>For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

It's the simplicity. That's all. Making things easier and more accessible. I don't know how can I explain it more because that's the whole point of Github Pages, like on their site "Websites for you and your projects". And that's it.

This is not monopolization. He could have hosted CV on WordPress or blogspot for free too and infinite amount of other such sites too.

As far as hosting dad's CV from 1980 goes, striving for "me too" good-enough web is exactly appropriate. Rational choice.

I have sympathy for you for being downvoted. I have raised this issue a couple of times before for using github for things other than hosting source code (hosting online courses, using github issues as calendar or comment system for blogs). No downvotes but people laughed it off like I was suggesting something crazy.

You know, facebook started off a social media and now it has become effectively a news outlet and entire Internet in some places. Google started as a search engine but now become many people's part of life.

When people start using services for everything, it's the service provider that is happily harvesting the data. Users end up being tied to a system that they find hard to replace. Github offers free hosting, free domain, free https certs, no need ssh, no need CMS, pretty neat and convenient, except now you depends on github's black box for hosting. Same for github APIs, which are not part of git, but github's proprietary technology. Wait until Github uses that as a leverage against you and you are forced to migrate off it.

Edit: I'm not saying don't use github. However, I would suggest not abusing it or become too dependent on it for things other than what it was designed to do.

I am also sympathetic to the person you are replying to. All that happened was someone asking a question, then people being sarcastic and unkind, and using the downvote button to express their dislike for such horrible questions.

Microsoft*

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Does it matter? Like really.

I personally have almost everything I write or do backed up in various git repo, why not? Literally my resume folder, with one file, has its own repo. Can I not push this to GitHub and share it?

Its not a source control system. I'm sure you know this but you are interacting with a website, not git itself.

Furthermore GitHub offers their pages feature which turns any repo into a website. If this was in gh-pages would that make it okay?

I'm guessing GP is uncomfortable with very few web sites having all the content. Does your CV or any content on GH other than source code matter? Does a project that doesn't even have a real web site matter? Like really?

I think some people overlook the second half of the company/product name, “hub.”

Or maybe it’s just easier to be overly-critical than to appreciate a cool way of sharing/saving information.

No annoying ads, opens picture, allows comments, thematic. I'd say that this is good cause

Plus, GitHub is a Microsoft property now, and I believe that on some fundamental level, Microsoft is happy to be in command of social web properties that still see avid use, and aren’t being stifled by Microsoft’s otherwise domineering reputation.

I wanted to come back and apologize for the tone of my earlier comment. I had read more sarcasm / contempt in your original post that I don't see upon subsequent reads.

Upvoting because as others have pointed out this is a valid question.

If his dad is still updating his resumes, why not :)

forked.

> Isn't this a misuse of Github? Surely there's a more suitable website for hosting a page with text and pictures than a source control system?

If Github Pages wouldn't be a thing, I'd have been inclined to agree. Ever since, though, such usage of Github strikes me as fair game.

I set it up with my phone. GitHub was the easiest way to do it that I knew HN wouldn't ban. They don't allow image links I don't think.