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Star topics that interest you
- franciscop 8y agoThe two topics displayed in the screenshot are actually languages (CSS and SCSS), so we could just filter trending by language then? I never got the appeal of topics that much, and this screenshot seems to confirm that in practice topics are a bit redundant. Should tag my "CSS" project with "CSS"? Isn't that a bit pointless?
- stuartaxelowen 8y agoThere are also topics like "NLP".
- franciscop 8y agoFunny you meantion that tag, since I think it'd be better to apply NLP automatically instead of having to tag each project manually :) Or, recognize a bit better each project. For instance, the LICENSE is automatically read. Why no read the "Keywords" in `package.json`, or the `<meta>` in `index.html` for the Pages projects, etc.
- cmiller1 8y agoMisread that as "star tropics" and got excited.
- barbecue_sauce 8y agoThe hiddenest of gems.
- keyle 8y agoInteresting that this only comes out now. Something I feel should have been a part of github for a long time. I used to love the old 'explore' page. It had a feeling of going on an adventure, digging into a dark cave of unfinished projects and people's brains.
- bitwize 8y agoI read this as "StarTropics that interest you" and I was like "yeah, that was a pretty interesting game."
- dredds 8y agoJust sayin' - https://github.com/topics/hacker-news https://github.com/topics/hacker-news
- Iv 8y agoRemember! Microsoft only want to know your preferences to better serve you in the future!
- sm4rk0 8y agoThe only critical comment gets downvoted. Is this FB or HN?
- retSava 8y agoWell, they do own Linkedin too.
- WilliamEdward 8y agoYou know they can do this without stars right? Just by seeing which pages you visit.
- t0astbread 8y agoI like GitHub but you're right. Microsoft does get a lot of knowledge about my interests and work as a developer through GitHub. In the case of GitHub, I'm (still) okay with it though, since most of the data I reveal on there is public anyways (code, organization membership, stars, ...) and the benefits (for me at least) outweigh the problem that I'm giving personal data to Microsoft. But yeah, I rarely hear people talk about privacy on GitHub even though we should pay attention to it.
- oweiler 8y agoPeople often forget that GH is a Social Network as well.
- Dowwie 8y agoConsider constraining your topics of interest and not checking too many boxes. Github explore only displays two or three of these topics at refresh in a seemingly random fashion.