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GitHub is removing the Trending Repositories page

75 points by thorum 4y ago

I check this page almost every day to discover new and interesting projects and keep track of what’s happening in the open source community. Unfortunately as of today, the following message is displayed on the Trending Repositories page: > Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September 30, 2022. For questions and feedback, please visit GitHub Community. https://github.com/trending

Rychard 4y ago
I've been using this for quite a few years now, and I've found a number of great projects using it: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos
- rezbull 4y ago
  I think this depends on the trending page itself so might no longer work as it stands.
  - wdroz 4y ago
    Yes, I checked the code and they use "https://github.com/trending/ https://github.com/trending/"
bboytwist 4y ago
This page is literally heart and soul of the Open Source. No idea who in the world got that "great" idea
- saurik 4y ago
  Really? Some winner-take-all short-term engagement-focussed discovery mechanism on GitHub is "literally [the] heart and soul of the Open Source"?
- kalupa 4y ago
  I wonder if it's a Microsoft strategy ...
  - playingalong 4y ago
    I am far from being a MS fan, but you cannot classify each bad decision from GitHub as coming from MS.
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bigredhdl 4y ago
Noooo! I love perusing this list.
pootpucker 4y ago
DaveFr 4y ago
There is still https://github.com/explore https://github.com/explore. Are they getting rid of a universal feed in favor of a personalized feed? I really hope not.
kelthuzad 4y ago
I loved exploring the trending page for languages I don't even know, especially really esoteric ones.
Kukumber 4y ago
And yet still no dashboard about the activities of my contributions I have to juggle between multiple poorly designed interfaces and emails to get track of my contributions
jbenner-radham 4y ago
I haven't looked at the GitHub API in a long time but I wonder if it would be possible for a 3rd party to replicate this functionality using the GitHub API.
- RileyJames 4y ago
  Yes, quite easily I’d suggest. I’ve built a GitHub analytics tool on top of their api. Primarily for internal metrics & tracking community engagement. The api makes a lot available, it’s very open. For public repos you can get lots of stats around activity and community engagement that would enable monitoring/projecting growth.
  - jbenner-radham 4y ago
    Thanks for the response! Looks like I have a new project to start on this weekend.
playingalong 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon
MuffinFlavored 4y ago
Damn, it's literally on my bookmark bar. Oh well! lol Maybe we'll see an uptick of things posted on HackerNews instead?
adamdusty 4y ago
I check this page daily and have found many interesting projects and even learned languages because I was interested in a project I found on the trending page. Ultimately it doesn't affect me much, but I'll be sad when it's gone.
klysm 4y ago
How is this “low usage”? I look at this every day and the query can’t be hard to run right? There has to be some other motive for removing this that I don’t understand.
coolspot 4y ago
There are only two bookmarks on my browser’s home page: hcknews.com and github/trending Seeing other people saying that they are visiting github/trending every day too, I can’t understand how it is “low usage”
RileyJames 4y ago
I wonder if this is due to a lack of usage of the trending pages or adverse effects of attempts to game the trending system. Even a slight increase in spam, manipulation and gamification of GitHub features would have a significantly adverse effect for a huge audience, and the perception of quality towards the GitHub product. That would need to be carefully balanced against usage of “trending”. And if trending is causing the increase, it’s a pretty clear trade off. It’s a pity we can’t have nice things. But this could be rebuilt outside of GitHub.
rfrec0n 4y ago
This is weird and the low usage thing seems totally incorrect. Pretty much everyone I know who knows about GitHub uses the trending page.
- julienreszka 4y ago
  They probably also use ad blockers that disable analytics
ngaut 4y ago
There are some other projects provide even more trending information than Github itself, for example: https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
What? People actually look at github pages other than the repo you're currently working on?
- TowerTall 4y ago
  Yes. The trending page.
fouadmatin 4y ago
A friend and I built a replacement for GitHub Trending that filters for repos that were created in the time range (rather than trending which ranked by stars in the time range regardless of creation date) https://trends.vercel.app https://trends.vercel.app
didip 4y ago
Nooo! This is how I keep up with new trends in Open Source! Without this, I would never found https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus, for example.
tianzhou 4y ago
throw the baby out with the bathwater :(
julienreszka 4y ago
Github probably thinks that there is low usage because programmers often use ad blockers that disable analytics. An easy way to verify that would be to add a "subscribe" button to the trending page and see the number of people who would subscribe.
evnix 4y ago
This was a great way to discover new repos, the explore page feels like instagram and i hate it. Trending section was the only reason i would use github for something other than work.
suryavamsi 4y ago
this is absurd, love that feature, whats the real motive?
- suryavamsi 4y ago
  https://github.com/community/community/discussions/31644 https://github.com/community/community/discussions/31644 if you guys do use, do message here?
tianzhou 4y ago
Update, GitHub said they would re-evaluate the plan https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/31644 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/31644
proboy 4y ago

75 points by thorum 4y ago

Rychard 4y ago

I've been using this for quite a few years now, and I've found a number of great projects using it: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos

rezbull 4y ago
I think this depends on the trending page itself so might no longer work as it stands.
- wdroz 4y ago
  Yes, I checked the code and they use "https://github.com/trending/ https://github.com/trending/"

bboytwist 4y ago

This page is literally heart and soul of the Open Source. No idea who in the world got that "great" idea

saurik 4y ago
Really? Some winner-take-all short-term engagement-focussed discovery mechanism on GitHub is "literally [the] heart and soul of the Open Source"?
kalupa 4y ago
I wonder if it's a Microsoft strategy ...
- playingalong 4y ago
  I am far from being a MS fan, but you cannot classify each bad decision from GitHub as coming from MS.

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bigredhdl 4y ago

Noooo! I love perusing this list.

pootpucker 4y ago

DaveFr 4y ago

There is still https://github.com/explore https://github.com/explore. Are they getting rid of a universal feed in favor of a personalized feed? I really hope not.

kelthuzad 4y ago

I loved exploring the trending page for languages I don't even know, especially really esoteric ones.

Kukumber 4y ago

And yet still no dashboard about the activities of my contributions I have to juggle between multiple poorly designed interfaces and emails to get track of my contributions

jbenner-radham 4y ago

I haven't looked at the GitHub API in a long time but I wonder if it would be possible for a 3rd party to replicate this functionality using the GitHub API.

RileyJames 4y ago
Yes, quite easily I’d suggest. I’ve built a GitHub analytics tool on top of their api. Primarily for internal metrics & tracking community engagement. The api makes a lot available, it’s very open. For public repos you can get lots of stats around activity and community engagement that would enable monitoring/projecting growth.
- jbenner-radham 4y ago
  Thanks for the response! Looks like I have a new project to start on this weekend.

playingalong 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon

MuffinFlavored 4y ago

Damn, it's literally on my bookmark bar. Oh well! lol Maybe we'll see an uptick of things posted on HackerNews instead?

adamdusty 4y ago

I check this page daily and have found many interesting projects and even learned languages because I was interested in a project I found on the trending page. Ultimately it doesn't affect me much, but I'll be sad when it's gone.

klysm 4y ago

How is this “low usage”? I look at this every day and the query can’t be hard to run right? There has to be some other motive for removing this that I don’t understand.

coolspot 4y ago

There are only two bookmarks on my browser’s home page: hcknews.com and github/trending Seeing other people saying that they are visiting github/trending every day too, I can’t understand how it is “low usage”

RileyJames 4y ago

I wonder if this is due to a lack of usage of the trending pages or adverse effects of attempts to game the trending system. Even a slight increase in spam, manipulation and gamification of GitHub features would have a significantly adverse effect for a huge audience, and the perception of quality towards the GitHub product. That would need to be carefully balanced against usage of “trending”. And if trending is causing the increase, it’s a pretty clear trade off. It’s a pity we can’t have nice things. But this could be rebuilt outside of GitHub.

rfrec0n 4y ago

This is weird and the low usage thing seems totally incorrect. Pretty much everyone I know who knows about GitHub uses the trending page.

julienreszka 4y ago
They probably also use ad blockers that disable analytics

ngaut 4y ago

There are some other projects provide even more trending information than Github itself, for example: https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago

What? People actually look at github pages other than the repo you're currently working on?

TowerTall 4y ago
Yes. The trending page.

fouadmatin 4y ago

A friend and I built a replacement for GitHub Trending that filters for repos that were created in the time range (rather than trending which ranked by stars in the time range regardless of creation date) https://trends.vercel.app https://trends.vercel.app

didip 4y ago

Nooo! This is how I keep up with new trends in Open Source! Without this, I would never found https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus, for example.

tianzhou 4y ago

throw the baby out with the bathwater :(

julienreszka 4y ago

Github probably thinks that there is low usage because programmers often use ad blockers that disable analytics. An easy way to verify that would be to add a "subscribe" button to the trending page and see the number of people who would subscribe.

evnix 4y ago

This was a great way to discover new repos, the explore page feels like instagram and i hate it. Trending section was the only reason i would use github for something other than work.

suryavamsi 4y ago

this is absurd, love that feature, whats the real motive?

suryavamsi 4y ago
https://github.com/community/community/discussions/31644 https://github.com/community/community/discussions/31644 if you guys do use, do message here?

tianzhou 4y ago

Update, GitHub said they would re-evaluate the plan https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/31644 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/31644

proboy 4y ago