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Github is totally within their right to hold this close to their vest for whatever reason, I don't see the big deal with it. Where does the line get drawn the
by Techonomicon 9y ago
Github is totally within their right to hold this close to their vest for whatever reason, I don't see the big deal with it.
Where does the line get drawn the OP asks? I'm unsure, but I believe in Github to make a smart call there. Not every situation is a slippery slope to facism / dictatorships, and I'm unsure why many things nowadays are described with this sort of notion attached to them.
Definitely feel like I wasted time reading this whole thing, and now wasted time posting, and now I'm sad.
- nostalgeek 9y ago> Github is totally within their right to hold this close to their vest for whatever reason, I don't see the big deal with it. True, but github could have avoided this kind of issue all together by putting all accounts under a different namespace or domain. In fact that's what they should do now to be "future proof". I don't understand why would any business think that domain.com/username is the right thing to do.
- Techonomicon 9y agoYea, since you know how to make the perfect products, perhaps you should just take githubs money. Edit: To clarify, looking back it's simple to just make such assumptions. But many popular sites have existed off of this model which github holds such as facebook, twitter, myspace back in the day IIRC. I'm not saying Github made the perfect decision at the time, but they didn't make a foolish one necesarily given the landscape of how user based sites have existed.
- nostalgeek 9y agoIt's not about making a perfect product. This is basic url design.
- eyjafjallajokul 9y agoHindsight is always 20-20. This is the way at least two major websites (Twitter, Facebook) work, and it appears to have more customer benefit than not.