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Choice is generally good in my opinion. Considering what the majority of Github is as a community I would very much doubt that the majority is going to be makin
by textadventure 4y ago
Choice is generally good in my opinion. Considering what the majority of Github is as a community I would very much doubt that the majority is going to be making their profiles private. Making it private makes no sense if you collaborate and contribute with open source projects (or host your own), and it doesn't help with having a public profile that you can potentially show off to companies you want to be hired by.
So who is this feature for? Those who have no interest in the social aspects of Github and want to use it privately. I'm sure that's going to be a minority.
- monkeybutton 4y agoMe. I'm in that minority! I have no interest in the social aspects or the weird and forced extroversion of curating of an online coder persona.
- notreallyserio 4y agoIf I could (without hassle) I'd use a different identity per commit. I don't see any value in consistent identity here. Maaaybe if I was using it for a resume.
- cxr 4y ago> Those who have no interest in the social aspects of Github and want to use it privately Or people who don't want to use GitHub in the first place (esp. because of its less than appealing position on privacy), but they don't have a choice because it's the Facebook of the tech world and seemingly everyone else insists on it in order to get anything done.