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I wonder how different the response from Github would be if this blog post was instead, "Oops, Github's confusing UI made me delete the entire project metadata.
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
I wonder how different the response from Github would be if this blog post was instead, "Oops, Github's confusing UI made me delete the entire project metadata... so since we're forced to start fresh we decided to move to Gitlab/sourcehut/etc."
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- pwdisswordfish9 5y agoThere is no way in the world that the kind of person who writes a post like this and clearly places so much emphasis on gamified social media stats as a proxy for self-validation ever chooses to move to Sourcehut. No way. GitLab is most likely out of the question, too. The author of this post is exactly the kind of ideal customer for what GitHub is "selling" and that the others can't provide.
- callalex 5y agoThere was a way to say this without framing it as a personal attack. The author may care about stars because they find that increased engagement leads to higher quality contributions, for example.
- maleldil 5y agohttpie would never do this. Deleting their stars is already a blow for their community, but changing to another provider would kill it.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoAnd yet they specifically call out Microsoft. And then the only consequence is "I will probably take a break from wearing Octocat-decorated t-shirts." Which makes them come out as hypocrites. You don't get to blame Microsoft for EEE, and then continue to help them with it !!