Even in the IT world, having spent literally my entire career writing code, I found github completely inscrutable when it first arrived, because all the explana

Even in the IT world, having spent literally my entire career writing code, I found github completely inscrutable when it first arrived, because all the explanatory text gets pushed down to the bottom of the page where you can't see it, which is completely opposite from... well... pretty much any other system of organizing information I have ever seen, ever. I felt really pissed off, actually, that so many people were cluttering up hackernews with all these low-effort links to random unexplained directories inside unfamiliar source repos, somehow thinking it reasonable to presume that we would all want to just dig around in their source code trying to understand what it was they were attempting to do. "github.com" became a negative value signal just as strong as "experts-exchange.com", and I tried to avoid ever clicking on such worthless links. It was probably a couple of years before I ever had reason to actually use github and discover that the information I had wanted had been present all along. Now of course the inverted layout has become second nature... but I still think it's a bad idea to send anyone who is not already a github user to a github link and expect them to find anything useful to do with it.