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Music can be a highly creative endeavour and perhaps that's what I should judge this "request our band for your event" UX on. But dang that's terrible UX, IMO.

Music can be a highly creative endeavour and perhaps that's what I should judge this "request our band for your event" UX on. But dang that's terrible UX, IMO. I wonder how negatively this affects their sales.

rplnt 11y ago
It's a PR stunt, nothing more. It's innovative and it seems to work to get their name out there, albeit to a very specific demographic.
- mrmcd 11y ago
  oh... it's a "PR" stunt is it?
  - jaybosamiya 11y ago
    ooh... it just hit me... PR == pull request == public relations
  - rplnt 11y ago
    Totally missed that :)
arscan 11y ago
According to their website, this is just an additional way to book them, not the only way. http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/
mbrock 11y ago
If that's terrible UX, doesn't that just mean GitHub's UX for pull requests is terrible?
- Roodgorf 11y ago
  Maybe for this particular use case, I don't really see how it says anything about the UX for actually using GitHub for it's intended purpose.
- rplnt 11y ago
  In the intended workflow, the PR itself is a very small part of the process. You fork the repo, study it, analyze it, work on it, test it, ..etc (99% of time spent), you create pull request (1%). Plus there is a reason for the PR - you describe your changes, provide reasoning for them, allow many parties to review them. With the concert request there is nothing to do, just create the request with specific data (something that would work MUCH better through a web form) and there is no reason to have it public as only relevant people to comment are you and the band's manager (something that would work well through email).
  - mbrock 11y ago
    Sorry, semi rhetorical question. Still, there's no easy way to do a quick PR on GitHub. That might be intentional. I suspect it's also intentional on the part of the band—they say if you do a proper PR it's very possible that they'll agree, so it's a kind of proof of work.
    - Widdershin 11y ago
      The edit file button in Github's web interface allow you to do pull requests that only impact one file very easily.

rplnt 11y ago

It's a PR stunt, nothing more. It's innovative and it seems to work to get their name out there, albeit to a very specific demographic.

mrmcd 11y ago
oh... it's a "PR" stunt is it?
- jaybosamiya 11y ago
  ooh... it just hit me... PR == pull request == public relations
- rplnt 11y ago
  Totally missed that :)

arscan 11y ago

According to their website, this is just an additional way to book them, not the only way. http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/ http://rawfunkmaharishi.uk/book-the-band/

mbrock 11y ago

If that's terrible UX, doesn't that just mean GitHub's UX for pull requests is terrible?

Roodgorf 11y ago
Maybe for this particular use case, I don't really see how it says anything about the UX for actually using GitHub for it's intended purpose.
rplnt 11y ago
In the intended workflow, the PR itself is a very small part of the process. You fork the repo, study it, analyze it, work on it, test it, ..etc (99% of time spent), you create pull request (1%). Plus there is a reason for the PR - you describe your changes, provide reasoning for them, allow many parties to review them. With the concert request there is nothing to do, just create the request with specific data (something that would work MUCH better through a web form) and there is no reason to have it public as only relevant people to comment are you and the band's manager (something that would work well through email).
- mbrock 11y ago
  Sorry, semi rhetorical question. Still, there's no easy way to do a quick PR on GitHub. That might be intentional. I suspect it's also intentional on the part of the band—they say if you do a proper PR it's very possible that they'll agree, so it's a kind of proof of work.
  - Widdershin 11y ago
    The edit file button in Github's web interface allow you to do pull requests that only impact one file very easily.