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The portfolio/social signalling reason is a tiny part of actual Github/Gitlab use. Most people and companies use these platforms to do their actual work and wri
by jstx1 5y ago
The portfolio/social signalling reason is a tiny part of actual Github/Gitlab use. Most people and companies use these platforms to do their actual work and write software. So no - they're not even close to being a fad. If the social signalling part isn't useful to you, just ignore it - that's what most other developers do too and most of them are doing fine without it.
- sdevonoes 5y agoI stated that for certain kind of projects it does make sense to use GitHub and similars. My point is mainly about people like me that publish their half-baked code online. I did it because I heard that GitHub was cool; so at least for me it's a fad. I wonder if other devs like me are in a similar position. > The portfolio/social signalling reason is a tiny part of actual Github/Gitlab use How so? Are there any numbers about this? Perhaps I write a bot to analyze the distribution of GitHub repositories in terms of stars, forks, #issues, #PRs and can come up with some numbers to back up my hypothesis. I'll publish the code... on my website :)