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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by chrisandchips on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:37AM (#23550630)
TBF, I don't think the author is saying that Github needs to be fun, but rather that it used to be and now isn't. It's lost a nice quality that it had.
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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by blondin on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:08AM (#23550891)
having a hard time understanding what the author is saying. i never considered github to be a place to have fun at. and i am surprised by this article and curious how other people see or use github...

by the way, the trending page is not everything about github!

i keep discovering and bookmarking github projects every now and then. for example, this repository where the author has implementations for trigonometry functions in k&r c: https://github.com/richgel999/triglib

i don't believe github has lost its quality either!

they recently pushed that new layout preview that made the app usable when my zoom level is at 150%. i was very happy about that. i can't wait for github to provide a better search engine. and i have the feeling that they are totally working on it :)

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by chrisandchips on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:53AM (#23551369)
I don't use trending often enough to know that I'm correct in saying this, but I get the impression that the author is describing a shift from "most star-ed projects each day" to some new algorithm which seems to resemble "most interesting projects as of late", with the later being less dynamic. I suppose that's in part why they feel less excitement and less value in the tool.

I agree that a lot of the recent changes to GH have been really cool. This article sort of makes me wish that features like the trending page were more configurable.

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by pdimitar on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:24AM (#23552532)
> I suppose that's in part why they feel less excitement and less value in the tool.

Any karma system (in this case GitHub stars) can be gamed, exploited, and used to generate hype.

I would be very glad if GitHub started moving away from that (although I have no clue what would replace it, if anything at all).

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by tclancy on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:37AM (#23551192)
Agreed, but I think us old farts are complaining the author thinks GitHub has changed while they have not and isn't considering that maybe their perspective shifted during the time as well.
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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by uchman on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:19AM (#23551689)
I think the headline differs (perhaps for traffic). The post seems to discuss concerns about the discovery/trending feature - how developers "discover" new code.
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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by nogabebop23 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:50AM (#23552111)
no doubt GH wanted to develop their social site aspects to increase engagement and "stickiness" but I don't think they ever succeeded much, so while it's obviosuly different for the author, it's not much of a loss for everyone else.
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