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Not touching that "Zero star hotness" problem, but > ... lot project discovery has moved to other platforms, and more specifically, to Twitter. This isn’t good
by nirui 6y ago
Not touching that "Zero star hotness" problem, but
> ... lot project discovery has moved to other platforms, and more specifically, to Twitter. This isn’t good for the community.
Let me bring out my 2 points here:
#1: Hey, please ask your inner self why would you ever want to put out your own free labor out on the Internet in the first place? For common good? World peace?
I bet most people will answer: Be cool, be known, receive attention etc. Those GitHub stars&fork you've received will help you in your next job hunt, it will help you when you trying to introduce yourself to the other devs, it will help you to expand your people network. In short, those free labor generates something good for you.
But GitHub has it's own limits. On GitHub, your projects are discovered/used by other devs, a bubbles of it's own kind. Further, those devs might not even want to give you stars because they're above your level and/or found your project uninteresting to them.
Social medias generate those "good"s better than GitHub simply because it got wider range of people, and greater chance to found somebody who is interested to try out your project.
#2 and more important: The GitHub Trending page itself is really poor when it comes to discover new things.
Just think: What's on that page? "Most stared today" list. Well yeah, then where are those stars came from? Right?
It's a "Trending" page, that's it. Not a "Hey, checkout these exciting repositories recommended just for you" page and certainly not "Hey, come here and checkout my new repo which currently got zero star but it's really cool" page.
I personally found ProductHunt, Hacker News and Reddit is a better source if I do want to "Discover" something new. Which I guess is why people are posting their projects there (as well as on Twitter and Facebook and other platforms).