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Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by lourot on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:04AM (#17951481)
OP here. The idea came because on your GitHub profile:

- I can't see all your code contributions since the beginning of time at a glance.

- For each of your pinned repos, I can't tell at the first glance whether you just fixed a typo or you wrote 90% of it.

ghuser.io tries to close this gap. You can show off with your entire GitHub "portfolio" and it gets refreshed every day.

And hopefully this is temporary. The best for the community would be to have all this directly on GitHub. The sooner ghuser.io can be switched off, the better ;)

Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by lourot on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:32AM (#17951663)
This is already more popular than I thought, the queue of profile requests (and AWS SQS) contains already more than 10 users, at this point any new user user coming will have the sensation that nothing happens when they want to get a profile.

I didn't expect to reach this point so fast (thanks!). I'll work on improving this right after this wave of new users. For now, just making sure that you all get your profile.

Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by franciscop on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:34AM (#17951670)
Expect 10-20k visits if it rides the front page of HN, with anywhere between 100-2000 users creating their profile.
Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by gadgetoid on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:54AM (#17951788)
Just requested mine! I'm not ready to abandon GitHub just yet- I use it for the "Hub", not the "Git" and this sort of change is just the kind of thing I'd like to see more of- let's hope some of these ideas get integrated into GitHub itself.

I'm still optimistic that Microsoft will be keen to make some quality-of-life improvements when they take the wheel, as a show of good faith.

Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by lourot on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:35AM (#17952092)
We had a chat with the "profile team" at GitHub recently and they are doing a great job as we speak at improving the GitHub profiles :)
Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by rmetzler on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:46AM (#17952603)
I'm the guy fixing the typos in everybody's README :)
Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by lourot on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:54AM (#17952654)
Hehe :) And this is really useful, I hope my message didn't make it sound like the opposite. (Unfortunately our readme is probably full of typos!)
Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by michaelmior on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:52PM (#17956376)
Don't you tire of it after a while? I still do it from time to time but I've started to feel apathetic after seeing so many READMEs just put together as an afterthought.
Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by TomK32 on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:15PM (#17953325)
damn it, you've been quicker at it, again...
Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by franciscop on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:31AM (#17951647)
Hi OP, seems nice but "Get my profile" seems to attempt to load but never gets done. Github username: franciscop. Slashdot effect? My profile is weird? Been coding for ~8 years OSS in Github and I've got a quite public profile [1], so I might have quite a bit of data there.

[1] http://git-awards.com/users/franciscop

Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by lourot on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:35AM (#17951673)
indeed, you're hitting what I just described in my other comment. Sorry about that, I really didn't think it would happen this fast (it's not the first time I post this on a forum).

Taking a few minutes now to display a temporary message that we're a bit overloaded.

Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by MrQuincle on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:15AM (#17951933)
This is a different type of forum: you're experiencing kind of a "hug of death". Be proud and move fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

Re:Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles by TomK32 on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:15PM (#17953332)
Thanks, my gh profile has become utterly useless due to overload.