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obvious and logical choice github is busy creating Instagram for "Coders"

lizardactivist 4y ago
Never occured to me before, but you're right, and it's an interesting way of putting it. Github boasts "83 million developers", but I think the number of actual developers is probably closer to 0.83 million (which is still a very large amount). But of course I am an insensitive jerk who likes to exclude people, because I think to be called a developer it takes more than registering an account, creating a repo with a couple of broken files and add noise to the signal.
- core-utility 4y ago
  Totally agree. I have a programming background but don't really program anymore. My Github account has been used for nothing more than submitting issues for projects I use. Any source control I need for other things I do, I use GitLab because of the free private projects and CI integration, but even that's minimal.
  - gtirloni 4y ago
    GitHub also has free private projects and CI though. Is that the only reason?
    - encryptluks2 4y ago
      GitHub has a lot more limitations on free projects last I checked, like making it private and using GitHub pages and how many people you can add.
      - colejohnson66 4y ago
        Since the MS acquisition, free accounts can have unlimited private repos.
    - goodoldneon 4y ago
      GitLab CI is better than GitHub Actions
  - jjice 4y ago
    GH made private repos free (for an unlimited amount) a few years back (maybe when MS bought them). Not sure about the free tier for GH actions (their CI).
vbezhenar 4y ago
Gitlab restricts its free offering while Github enhances it. I don't know about instagram, but if you're cheap and want free ride, Github just better. Gitlab is open source which is huge for self-hosting and that's about it.
- sofixa 4y ago
  > Gitlab restricts its free offering while Github enhances it. I don't know about instagram, but if you're cheap and want free ride, Github just better. Well GitLab don't have the unlimited cash of Microsoft, so of course, GitHub can afford to lose money on the free offering. However GitLab have free self-hosted, while GitHub don't ( and as a matter of fact their self-hosted solutions sounds pretty terrible, being months/years behind the SaaS features, while GitLab is the same).
voqv 4y ago
They now added achievements 5 days ago. I have an achievement for having "opened pull requests that have been merged". It really is becoming a social network.
- jtvjan 4y ago
  Wasn't that the whole idea? “GitHub: Social Coding”.
  - lijogdfljk 4y ago
    Yea i'm honestly perplexed by everyone on this subject. This has always been on the tin. Big font, right there, for everyone. It also just happened to be the slick(read nice ux) tool.. so i guess many just pretended it wasn't a social network?
  - guardiangod 4y ago
    The name is literally "GitHub", not "GitAlone" .
- itvision 4y ago
  What's bad about that exactly? I like the badge actually. Looks nice and warm.
  - voqv 4y ago
    It's just... noise? I assume the average github user is a developer and has closed dozens of PRs in his life. It's cool to see someone's code is on the mars rover or in the artic storage. I can't care about achievements like "yolo" "galaxy brain" and "pull shark". I don't understand what information that conveys on a code collaboration platform.

Never occured to me before, but you're right, and it's an interesting way of putting it. Github boasts "83 million developers", but I think the number of actual developers is probably closer to 0.83 million (which is still a very large amount). But of course I am an insensitive jerk who likes to exclude people, because I think to be called a developer it takes more than registering an account, creating a repo with a couple of broken files and add noise to the signal.

core-utility 4y ago
Totally agree. I have a programming background but don't really program anymore. My Github account has been used for nothing more than submitting issues for projects I use. Any source control I need for other things I do, I use GitLab because of the free private projects and CI integration, but even that's minimal.
- gtirloni 4y ago
  GitHub also has free private projects and CI though. Is that the only reason?
  - encryptluks2 4y ago
    GitHub has a lot more limitations on free projects last I checked, like making it private and using GitHub pages and how many people you can add.
    - colejohnson66 4y ago
      Since the MS acquisition, free accounts can have unlimited private repos.
  - goodoldneon 4y ago
    GitLab CI is better than GitHub Actions
- jjice 4y ago
  GH made private repos free (for an unlimited amount) a few years back (maybe when MS bought them). Not sure about the free tier for GH actions (their CI).

vbezhenar 4y ago

Gitlab restricts its free offering while Github enhances it. I don't know about instagram, but if you're cheap and want free ride, Github just better. Gitlab is open source which is huge for self-hosting and that's about it.

sofixa 4y ago
> Gitlab restricts its free offering while Github enhances it. I don't know about instagram, but if you're cheap and want free ride, Github just better. Well GitLab don't have the unlimited cash of Microsoft, so of course, GitHub can afford to lose money on the free offering. However GitLab have free self-hosted, while GitHub don't ( and as a matter of fact their self-hosted solutions sounds pretty terrible, being months/years behind the SaaS features, while GitLab is the same).

voqv 4y ago

They now added achievements 5 days ago. I have an achievement for having "opened pull requests that have been merged". It really is becoming a social network.

jtvjan 4y ago
Wasn't that the whole idea? “GitHub: Social Coding”.
- lijogdfljk 4y ago
  Yea i'm honestly perplexed by everyone on this subject. This has always been on the tin. Big font, right there, for everyone. It also just happened to be the slick(read nice ux) tool.. so i guess many just pretended it wasn't a social network?
- guardiangod 4y ago
  The name is literally "GitHub", not "GitAlone" .
itvision 4y ago
What's bad about that exactly? I like the badge actually. Looks nice and warm.
- voqv 4y ago
  It's just... noise? I assume the average github user is a developer and has closed dozens of PRs in his life. It's cool to see someone's code is on the mars rover or in the artic storage. I can't care about achievements like "yolo" "galaxy brain" and "pull shark". I don't understand what information that conveys on a code collaboration platform.