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Hard pass on the suggestion to add more social network features. Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety, we need less of that not more.
by root_axis 6y ago
Hard pass on the suggestion to add more social network features. Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety, we need less of that not more.
- randomdude402 6y agoI regret only that I have but one upvote to give.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI had a spare, you can have mine
- njn 6y agoyou don't like github drama? (https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama)
- ybbond 6y agomaybe we can just wait until they decided to provide both suggested timeline and linear timeline, like twitter.
- hirsin 6y agoI hate to say that I actually like that idea. I'm swamped in random notifications for weird parts of the repo I don't care about. I'd really like a "high # of comments and reactions/loc changes" feed.
- nikanj 6y agoSocial network features are such a 2015 me-too fad feature anyway. What they should add is AI, or maybe blockchain.
- tzs 6y agoBefore adding the newest fad features, maybe the should go back and add old fads that they missed. One big fad from 50+ years ago that I'd welcome is folders. I don't want to just have all my repositories appear in a flat list ordered by time since last update. I want to make folders so I can organize repositories by topic--just like I have my repositories organized in my computer.
- kerng 6y agoThe modern version is tags, but they lack good sorting/viewing for tags
- raxxorrax 6y agoNot wanting to start a discussion about graphs vs trees for organizing, but in my opinion simple folders are great to fulfill basic needs. I cannot imagine a book having no table of contents and just a list of tags with numbers indicating relevant page numbers. That is just dumbing yourself down in favor of machine classification or search algorithms while a simple solution exists for this problem for higher order classification and context, which tags alone fail to provide, even with sorting.
- 6510 6y agoWith limited entries of text or code you can just have them all on one page. Slightly more requires a folder or category system. If you have even more you need tags you should also keep the categories (everything must sit in a single category), If you have even more you need categories, tags and search. Trying to use one of those for the wrong volume just creates clutter.
- rytis 6y ago
- jjice 6y ago> Such features are only conducive to drama and anxiety Great point. I haven't used a social network yet that didn't result in me becoming at least a little addicted at one point or another. In high school, I was constantly on Twitter, seeking the dopamine rush from those likes and retweets. Getting out of there has done wonders for my personal life.
- deanclatworthy 6y agoI didn’t really get the impression here that Jared wanted a social network. He just wanted a better mechanism for discovering good quality and interesting projects. Popularity is often one good signal.
- callmekit 6y agoQuote from the article: "I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub".
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI'm not sure Github stars were/are ever an indicator of "good quality" or even "interesting". And I think the Web Development community could do with a decent break from "new" as well. What would be great is if we could just prune some of the gajillion frameworks and libraries already out there, and spend some time to make the ones we keep decently robust and elegant.
- majewsky 6y agoGitHub stars suffer from the same problem as likes on Twitter or Facebook. A social network would actually need three separate kinds of positive interactions: - a like ("I want to let the creator know I like this.") - a share ("I want my followers to know about this.") - a bookmark ("I want to be able to find this again later.") Most social networks only have the first two. GitHub, even worse, only has one. (I personally use stars exclusively as bookmarks, btw.)
- IggleSniggle 6y agoYes, exactly. I'm more likely to star a small project that I find interesting even if flawed because I don't want to lose track of it. I don't really understand why I would need or want to star React or Nodejs for example. There is zero chance I lose track of those projects.
- ProZsolt 6y ago
- angled 6y agoSites such as Advogato and Planet GNOME tried that in the past and for better or for worse, didn't succeed. Let's not repeat the mistakes of the past!