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When MSFT bought them, I predicted they would pivot to adding features I don’t care about. I was right. They went from the best support I’ve ever seen (report

by ken 6y ago

When MSFT bought them, I predicted they would pivot to adding features I don’t care about. I was right. They went from the best support I’ve ever seen (report an issue, get a personal email asking for details, see it fixed) to the worst (not touching a single feature I find worthwhile). There’s about a thousand things I wish they would fix or add before this. They still don’t allow videos so every screencast demo on GitHub is still a giant GIF, right? I used to like GitHub so much I paid out of pocket even when I was unemployed. Now it’s on my list to check out GitLab again. Companies don’t know when to stop. It’s like they created the bicycle and add another wheel every year as an improvement.

tourist2d 6y ago
"GitHub is adding too many dumb features, btw please support my use case of having videos in my repo"
- LordIllidan 6y ago
  I've often wished this feature actually, especially when submitting pull requests, and you'd like to showcase the new features. I've often had to either embed a video link or convert to gif.
  - kisna72 6y ago
    I use gifs for this and they work great!
    - mikewhy 6y ago
      As someone who likes to do previews in PRs, mp4's are infinitely better than gifs. Better colors, better frame rate, better resolution, better size when you change any of those factors. It's really, really silly GitHub still don't support them.
  - toupeira 6y ago
    GitLab supports this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/doc/user/markdown.md#videos https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/doc/user/ma...
- eythian 6y ago
  I have a video in a gitlab readme, it's quite nice to show how my otherwise quite academic genetic algorithm toy project looks when it's animated.
- ken 6y ago
  Actually, my use case is clicking on other people's GitHub links from time to time and not wanting 5 MB of download for 100 KB of data.
arch-ninja 6y ago
Search has been broken since last November and it's impossible to select text when reading files in the browser anymore because they checked a JS-powered intellisense feature in. Now I usually just checkout the repository and use ripgrep to search for code.
- dstaley 6y ago
  I search and copy text from GitHub at least a dozen times a day, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say search has been broken since November. As for the code copying, could you provide a bit more info on what's actually preventing you from selecting the text?
faizmokhtar 6y ago
It could be a low hanging fruit that can be easily picked up. I'm certain they have more designers or developers working on other features as well. I remember a few years ago people were saying Github development seems to be stuck due to legacy issues and they couldn't compete with Gitlab in terms of features.
natfriedman 6y ago
We’re working on the video upload feature, which we agree is needed. What else would you like to see us do?
- abhas9 6y ago
  I would like to see improvement in the code search results. Just yesterday, I was looking for some example code. It would be a huge plus for me if I can sort the code search results and get results from most starred repos on top. Currently, we can only sort results by time and relevance.
  - natfriedman 6y ago
    Good idea, I will pass this along to the search team.
  - neovintage 6y ago
    Agree with the improvement on code search results. Our team is working on it!
  - ORioN63 6y ago
    The search results! And I'll be the first to admit. I'm not sure what I want, but what it is, is sadly just not it. A couple of things I _feel_ (based on personal usage): - When I search `import package`, I rarely want the package itself, but usage examples. - There's a lot of repetition from forks.
- anewvillager 6y ago
  I want to search code with regex. You know, like I do when I clone the repo to my local machine.
  - hansvm 6y ago
    This isn't perfect yet, but it's better than nothing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824

by ken 6y ago

tourist2d 6y ago

"GitHub is adding too many dumb features, btw please support my use case of having videos in my repo"

LordIllidan 6y ago
I've often wished this feature actually, especially when submitting pull requests, and you'd like to showcase the new features. I've often had to either embed a video link or convert to gif.
- kisna72 6y ago
  I use gifs for this and they work great!
  - mikewhy 6y ago
    As someone who likes to do previews in PRs, mp4's are infinitely better than gifs. Better colors, better frame rate, better resolution, better size when you change any of those factors. It's really, really silly GitHub still don't support them.
- toupeira 6y ago
  GitLab supports this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/doc/user/markdown.md#videos https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/doc/user/ma...
eythian 6y ago
I have a video in a gitlab readme, it's quite nice to show how my otherwise quite academic genetic algorithm toy project looks when it's animated.
ken 6y ago
Actually, my use case is clicking on other people's GitHub links from time to time and not wanting 5 MB of download for 100 KB of data.

arch-ninja 6y ago

Search has been broken since last November and it's impossible to select text when reading files in the browser anymore because they checked a JS-powered intellisense feature in. Now I usually just checkout the repository and use ripgrep to search for code.

dstaley 6y ago
I search and copy text from GitHub at least a dozen times a day, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say search has been broken since November. As for the code copying, could you provide a bit more info on what's actually preventing you from selecting the text?

faizmokhtar 6y ago

It could be a low hanging fruit that can be easily picked up. I'm certain they have more designers or developers working on other features as well. I remember a few years ago people were saying Github development seems to be stuck due to legacy issues and they couldn't compete with Gitlab in terms of features.

natfriedman 6y ago

We’re working on the video upload feature, which we agree is needed. What else would you like to see us do?

abhas9 6y ago
I would like to see improvement in the code search results. Just yesterday, I was looking for some example code. It would be a huge plus for me if I can sort the code search results and get results from most starred repos on top. Currently, we can only sort results by time and relevance.
- natfriedman 6y ago
  Good idea, I will pass this along to the search team.
- neovintage 6y ago
  Agree with the improvement on code search results. Our team is working on it!
- ORioN63 6y ago
  The search results! And I'll be the first to admit. I'm not sure what I want, but what it is, is sadly just not it. A couple of things I _feel_ (based on personal usage): - When I search `import package`, I rarely want the package itself, but usage examples. - There's a lot of repetition from forks.
anewvillager 6y ago
I want to search code with regex. You know, like I do when I clone the repo to my local machine.
- hansvm 6y ago
  This isn't perfect yet, but it's better than nothing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824