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Off topic, but anyone else annoyed by these walls of contributor avatars in READMEs popular in the JS ecosystem? Occasionally they only include a handful of pro
by oefrha 7y ago
Off topic, but anyone else annoyed by these walls of contributor avatars in READMEs popular in the JS ecosystem? Occasionally they only include a handful of project members, with roles, so it could be mildly useful, but more often than not it’s a pointless list of just avatar and handle of everyone who ever fixed a typo, and if I want to see the list I’d better click on “contributors” which is built into every GitHub project. To me, this seems to be a manifestation of today’s front end devs’ utmost disrespect for people’s bandwidth.
Ironically, this README loads more than a hundred images but I can’t even find a desktop screenshot.
- laurent123456 7y agoThe avatar list I guess is a way to thank the contributors, and it's at the bottom of the readme so shouldn't be a big annoyance for most readers. There's a screenshot of the desktop app at the top of the readme.
- lilfatbitch 7y agoYeah it's pretty annoying and unnecessary thanks to the Contributors tab on github. Plus, imagine the commit spam, everytime someone new contributes they have to add themselves or someone else has to. That might even deter potential contributors from wanting to contribute if adding themselves to that list is a requirement.