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Once you do it a few times, writing the repo names means nothing. You have to do it on your repo with 0 followers just making it public. It’s not very notable u
by hombre_fatal 5y ago
Once you do it a few times, writing the repo names means nothing. You have to do it on your repo with 0 followers just making it public. It’s not very notable unless you’re new to Github.
My advice is for Github to tell you that you’re losing 53,000 stars (not just “all your stars”) to help knock you out of autopilot.
I don’t get the finger pointing though. Obviously they messed up, it’s the entire post. But it’s also a good moment to reflect on how UX can be used to prevent people from messing up.
- barrucadu 5y agoWhat should the threshold be? 53,000 stars? 50,000 stars? 25,000? 100? No matter what number you pick, there will be someone with fewer stars who considers their stars important enough to merit a warning. Unless you set the threshold to 1, in which case it's just more meaningless noise, like the repository name (apparently) is.
- ric2b 5y agoAlways show the number if it's more than 0. It's more informative and might catch your attention better than "something bad might happen"