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You can now set your status on GitHub
- porphyrogene 8y agoComing soon: GitHub now reminds you what commits you made on this day last year.
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- basil-rash 8y agoYou're joking, but I'd actually find that kinda fun. Every day / every commit would be excessive, but maybe reminding you of large PRs/issues you closed this time last year?
- BucketSort 8y agoI'd like that feature. There's no reason why GitHub can't have a little more pizzazz. A lot of us spend a great deal of time writing code, why not have some fun with it? As long as the core features remain intact and unencumbered with trivial things, I for one welcome the additions GitHub has been making and look forward to their continuing development.
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- porphyrogene 8y agoWithout getting into too deep a discussion of features, this development attitude of “implement everything, let them use what they want” is historically awful. The developers lose focus on what they are making, the users lose focus on what they are using. Eventually a platform that does a great job of any of the ten things that yours does poorly is a superior product and its creators are praised for shipping such a clean and minimal product.
- goliatone 8y agoI think this kind of features are better served as browser extensions or maybe from the GitHub marketplace(?), as in not part of the core product but with an easy activation by the user and easy to discover. No need to pollute the product- I already use multiple browser extensions to declutter and simplify GitHubs UI
- BucketSort 8y agoIt's a status update for your profile page, what's with the slippery slope arguments here? It's not like they implemented a social feed where you can post updates, making it more like a legitimate social network.
- porphyrogene 8y agoWhat? I was referring to the development philosophy that I saw reflected in the above comment. I even said that I was not referring to any specific features, including this one.
- angott 8y agoI wouldn't have any problem with this kind of features, as long as the user can disable them in the Settings. They would actually be a nice addition.
- cryptonector 8y ago"You have a new memory." "Your code is rusting, get out there and oil it!" (with apologies to Dr. Seuss) No please.
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- manicdee 8y ago“It’s been a year since you touched this code. Do you still use it?”
- gerdesj 8y agoCan I not simply wire it up to all the other bloody stupid status displaying apps that pervade my life? Set phone to DND. Set auto responder on email client(s). Set away status on various desktop apps. Set away on various web apps. Set away on work mobile (cell) apps. Go home. Actually I don't bother with any of that. I don't answer the phone or any apps when I'm not "there" or can't be arsed or am busy. It's what people have done for millennia.
- grimjack00 8y agoI guess we need SaaS: Status as a Service
- ninkendo 8y agoIsn't that originally all twitter was? At least that's how I remember it being described when it first came out: "It's a service to store your AIM-style status messages"
- nine_k 8y agoSee status.net It would he great if software just supported the protocol, and we might have a single page to set the status, then broadcast to all related services.
- gumby 8y ago
- rpeden 8y agoNow I just need a Winamp plugin that changes my status to tell everyone what song I'm currently listening to, and I'll feel like I'm back in the 90s. :)
- sephoric 8y agoI hate to say it but I feel like the 90s was a better time all around for the casual computer user. - You had total customization over your computer, every app was skinnable including Windows or MacOS itself - Linux was in a great spot, finally becoming usable as a desktop OS with a ton of fun toys and UI/UX experiments that got a lot of us into Linux before we knew about CLIs - Products were sold per-unit instead of *aaS, so when you bought something, you knew you could use it as long as you needed to - Social networks didn't exist, so if you wanted to interact with people, you had to learn something - which is what made geocities and later MySpace fun, since people had to learn a little HTML in order to update their friends on their current status, and could use that new skill to decorate their "home" page I miss the 90s. I want to bring that back. That's why I got my kids PICO-8, at least it's a little taste of the good old days!
- kaishiro 8y agoOh man, you and I remember 90's Linux very differently.
- sephoric 8y agoTrue, I may be thinking of 2000s Linux. Compiz and the wobbly windows examples were fresh in my mind from the other day's HN discussions.
- nathancahill 8y agoAww Compiz. Converted so, so many people to Linux by showing off the effects.
- jzoch 8y agoExcept those are rose tinted glasses youre wearing imo. Linux isnt worse today than it was in the days of yore, it just hasnt kept up as well in your mind. Computing as a whole has improved so much that linux couldnt keep up with your higher expectations.
- Blackstone4 8y agoWill they provide end to end encrypted chat next?
- drstewart 8y agoNo, they weren't bought by Google
- Blackstone4 8y agoGitHub is a social network of sorts. There's definitely a network effect and a moat with the large open source projects on there. It'll be interesting to see where Microsoft take this. GitHub is fundamentally a collaboration tool so chat would make sense.
- saagarjha 8y agoThough, I wouldn't be opposed to something like Gitter being built-in, to replace the Slack/Discord/Telegram groups that many projects have.
- geoah 8y agoGitter-like web ui with xmpp or irc options would be a welcome addition indeed. the ability to join a #org or #org/project channel would be epic.
- cryptonector 8y agoA chat feature might be ok, actually, though if we're going to have more IM applications and protocols, I'd rather have a general-purpose one, not one specific to github.
- thinkingemote 8y agoThere used to be a messaging system. You could message any user. Was quite handy for those who you didn't know their email.
- nerdponx 8y agoWho exactly wanted this feature? Are they going to try monetizing Github with data mining? Mining commit history for personal metadata could be a (thoroughly despicable) gold mine.
- simplify 8y agoIs GitHub going to be Microsoft's way of getting their own social network? Seems better than Google's approach I guess
- jfaat 8y agoBetter for whom?
- marcosdumay 8y agoBetter for MS, of course. Better = has better chances of succeeding. I don't see much difference between MS bootstrapping a network from github or google bootstrapping one from youtube, so I disagree with the GP.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThat's what LinkedIn is for.
- jenscow 8y agoThey might merge the two...
- sephoric 8y agoAll sarcasm aside, this feature is absolutely the wrong direction. Github may have some things in common with social networks, but it operates on a longer-term scale. It's the difference between a book and a paragraph. People who care about this sort of daily minutia can find it plentifully on Twitter and Facebook. Github is great for finding out what people have been up to, without caring about what they're doing this second, and that's what was great about it.
- BucketSort 8y agoI think you misunderstand the feature. You don't have to constantly update your status. You can set it once in a while to show what you're up to... if you want to.
- stabbles 8y agoMy guess is it will happen as frequently as people update their Whatsapp status
- sephoric 8y agoAnd what else is the point of that except to let other people know about your hour-to-hour business? Their gif uses "Shipping [software]" as an example, and even has a "Busy" checkbook they they demonstrate ticking off. When features exist, people use them, and when some people use them, other people are socially pressured into using them to conform to peer expectations. This is the beginning of a bad thing for Github unless MS changes direction. That said, Github arose out of the ashes of Sourceforge completely and utterly failing to deliver frictionless value (and the advent of git), so maybe this will eventually provide an opportunity for an existing (or new?) competitor to rise up and take Github's place in the space of "simple network of git repos".
- azhenley 8y agoGitHub Stories! Share screenshots of your app or source code and they disappear after 24 hours.
- gumby 8y agoI tried to reply to this with a single thumbs up emoji but HN wisely screened it out.
- mawburn 8y ago...why?
- jenscow 8y agoIs this "feature" due to the new ownership? I really don't like the direction it's going. Soon, we might not be able to make PRs without making our friends "help", and people will be making accounts for their cat. When my (non-coding) teenage daughter signs up, I'm leaving!
- ilikehurdles 8y agoIt’s pretty clear that public non-chronological, timelines, posts, profile pages, and messaging will follow, along with a mess of spammy recruiters. Then, leetcode style scoring so that employers who can’t interview their way out of a paper bag know who to hire. Can’t wait to see where else they’ll stuff “sponsored content”.
- thinkingemote 8y agoThey had, and removed messaging already
- colemickens 8y agoThis is a good reminder that I don't use GitHub the way they expect me to. I don't use their notifications. I don't really ever look at my profile. Certainly not enough that I would go to it regularly to (even think to) update my "status". I'm wary of "slippery slope" arguments but I do NOT want a(nother) social network in my life. It's hard to imagine how this doesn't evolve into GitHub Chat, etc, especially with GitLab buying Gitter, etc. No thank you. Thankfully there are ever increasing (and OSS) forge platforms, it seems. It is a bit amusing, however, to imagine hypothetical horrible, naggy, even more self-promotional LinkedIn/GitHub integrations.
- flag_bcz_mad 8y agoGitHub is dead to me now.
- bbatha 8y agoContrary to the opinions here, I find this to be a very useful feature for the same reason I like vacation auto-responders in email. No I couldn't care less if you're "feeling the groove" or some nonsense. But a friendly reminder to someone assigning me a review that I'm in vacation, or swamped in meetings all day would be very useful to me and my team.
- manicdee 8y agoPreach! Also as irritating as vacation mail can be, at least now I know that you aren’t talking to me because you aren’t here, rather than you’re just giving me the silent treatment because I made a disparaging comment about Tori Amos’s latest album.
- underyx 8y agoI'm surprised everyone here missed the point by so much. This isn't a status update in the Facebook or Twitter sense. It's akin to the same feature that exists on Slack and GitLab already. It's useful to mark when you're on holiday or otherwise not working like usual, so teammates know what to expect from you.
- azhenley 8y agoLooking at my GitHub to find out if I am on holiday seems very strange. It makes sense on Slack, an application for communicating with people.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoAlmost all of my open-source collaborations on Github have been so informal I wouldn't even tell anyone directly that I'm, say, away on vacation in the issues section, but I could see myself setting this status or appreciating that someone else set it. Though I think HN is too old-hat to really understand how anyone could like these sorts of social features, and it's to their own detriment.
- geoah 8y agoSeeing someone's status when you mention them, assign them a ticket, etc is a very welcome addition imo. The "taking time off my side projects" status example is amazingly spot-on as well.
- underyx 8y agoI assume this is targeted more at companies who use GitHub for their internal code, where people collaborate at a much more systematic (and probably higher) pace, where planning time and deadlines are much more prevalent.
- underyx 8y agoPeople use GitHub comments for communication also. Seeing a note next to people's names in a conversation if you cannot expect a timely reply from them is unarguably useful.
- sjroot 8y agoThe ONLY context in which this makes sense is allowing users to indicate whether they are looking for work or projects to contribute to. Let's hope all the excessive stuff (stories, timelines, etc) mentioned in these comments never come to fruition. If you dislike this feature then you need to take ten seconds out of your time to submit feedback through 'set status' interface.
- manicdee 8y agoAlso: - maintainers are all on holidays, that PR is not getting touched this week - the person who accepted that issue has not been active for a week, perhaps I can pick it up - the person who accepted that issue is active today, maybe there will be a PR to review later! Check with them to see howmit’s going and maybe schedule some time tomorrow to review the PR Heaps of use cases.
- mLuby 8y agoWhile we're griping about GitHub changes, why did they change the reaction emoji style? They look flat and enervated where before they were vibrant and visually distinct.
- bengrunfeld 8y agoAs long as this isn't the toothing stone for more "social" features. Github needs to stay a clean engineering space. It's social enough already. And please GOD they don't injecting ads like on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. That would be the death knell for Github.
- throwawaymath 8y agoI see a lot of skepticism in this thread. That was my initial impression too, but I actually think this is a good feature now that I think about it. As one example: it will be nice to know if a coworker is out of office or on extended PTO, like vacation. There are usually other "profiles" which display the same information in an organization, but this is a useful place for it too if you're about to e.g. tag someone in an Issue thread.
- HereBeBeasties 8y agoDear GutHub, Please stop mucking about with pointless stuff like this and make your search functionality not totally suck. Yours faithfully, All devs everywhere.
- LoveMortuus 8y agoIs it just me or is this like really stupid?
- t3hprofit 8y ago#socialfeaturenooneaskedfor
- rch 8y agoStatus: Migrating to another platform This is a really useful feature for indicating that an account is vestigial despite occasional blips of activity. I hope they implement something similar with LinkedIn.
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- mandeepj 8y agoSo, MS shipped their first feature in Github :-) errrrr, actually - second (after unlimited private repos)
- fourier_mode 8y agoAnother place where I would need to update my status before leaving for a holiday. Ergh..!
- Corrado 8y agoMaybe they can make a plug-in for Slack. That way when I update my Slack status it goes to GitHub as well. :/
- DrScump 8y agoThis is reminiscent of the UNIX "finger" command usage from 30 years ago.