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Yes, clearly this is a misuse of a platform that offers GitHub pages with custom domain support so that users can host their own static sites or blogs. I mean,

Yes, clearly this is a misuse of a platform that offers GitHub pages with custom domain support so that users can host their own static sites or blogs. I mean, it’s a also a platform with an embeddable “gists” feature ostensibly for code snippets, but frequently used to access notes of all types. Clearly anyone who has ever typed a plaintext gist is also misusing GitHub. /s Dude, why do you care? It’s not a “project” in a traditional sense but it’s not hurting anything and if someone wants to store a cool readme in their account, why does it matter?

tannhaeuser 8y ago
Still begs the question how come it's more attractive to put something onto GH pages rather than creating a simple web site from scratch. Yes I know - buying a domain, hosting, SSL, HTML/CSS etc is considerably more effort even for a static site. But should we be satisfied with the de-facto monopolization of the Web and its attention economy and tracking business model? Part of the problem seems also that folks merely strive for "me too" good-enough web presences and experiences on platforms.
- bdz 8y ago
  Your comment reminds me to the classic when Dropbox was first shown here >For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 It's the simplicity. That's all. Making things easier and more accessible. I don't know how can I explain it more because that's the whole point of Github Pages, like on their site "Websites for you and your projects". And that's it.
- watwut 8y ago
  This is not monopolization. He could have hosted CV on WordPress or blogspot for free too and infinite amount of other such sites too. As far as hosting dad's CV from 1980 goes, striving for "me too" good-enough web is exactly appropriate. Rational choice.

tannhaeuser 8y ago

Still begs the question how come it's more attractive to put something onto GH pages rather than creating a simple web site from scratch. Yes I know - buying a domain, hosting, SSL, HTML/CSS etc is considerably more effort even for a static site. But should we be satisfied with the de-facto monopolization of the Web and its attention economy and tracking business model? Part of the problem seems also that folks merely strive for "me too" good-enough web presences and experiences on platforms.

bdz 8y ago
Your comment reminds me to the classic when Dropbox was first shown here >For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 It's the simplicity. That's all. Making things easier and more accessible. I don't know how can I explain it more because that's the whole point of Github Pages, like on their site "Websites for you and your projects". And that's it.
watwut 8y ago
This is not monopolization. He could have hosted CV on WordPress or blogspot for free too and infinite amount of other such sites too. As far as hosting dad's CV from 1980 goes, striving for "me too" good-enough web is exactly appropriate. Rational choice.