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The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days. Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Langu
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The trending page is pretty much the only reason I go to GitHub these days.
Weirdly, I've been low-key worried about it ever since they added the "Spoken Language" dropdown, which AFAICT is the only real change from the last few years.
It's not that I think being able to search by spoken language is bad or anything, it just screams of a middle manager trying to "solve" the important problem of a few people being confused about how the "language" filter referred to the programming language, and the solution was "let's add another button!"
- IshKebab 4y agoI always assumed it was to add a way to filter out those Chinese repos that are starred by a million people but aren't actually code project.
- notduncansmith 4y agoI have run across several projects I wanted to use but whose main documentation was not in a language I spoke well enough. It would be nice to only show repositories documented in languages I know well enough to interpret reasonable demands.
- favorited 4y agoTotally agree! Documented language is a great filter feature. I want more filters, not fewer. The fact that this is the only filter they’ve added in years, and it is next to a different “language” drop-down doesn’t suggest that they’re really interested in making filtering actually helpful — but that they’re trying to solve one specific label being a source of confusion by adding another button.
- stanislavb 4y agoMay I suggest giving a try to https://www.libhunt.com https://www.libhunt.com ? A project of mine that tracks project mentions (in real time) on Hacker News and Reddit to determine trending repos.
- psytrx 4y agoI really like the concept, good job! Just a nitpick: I'd like to see the repo org or author in the repo listings. The top 20 is currently listing 3 different stable-diffusion repos with no obvious differences (except for the ranking scores).
- drdd 4y agoSame trending is the main reason for visiting gh. I always find amazing repos there
- thiht 4y agoThe language filter was actually a suggestion I made (I’m probably not the only one but I sent them feedback emails and everything). The reason is that at some point a few years ago, the trending list was filled with Chinese repositories which makes it useless if you don’t speak the language. The language filter fixed it for me and made the page useful again.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI mean that sounds like one solution - especially if you cannot work with Chinese nationals for reasons. But in the spirit of open source and access to other people's code, an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions.
- withinboredom 4y agoOr just right-click and hit "translate to LANGUAGE"?
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- probably_wrong 4y ago> an alternative solution would be for Github to integrate with a translation service and translate descriptions Please don't do this - plenty of service auto-translate descriptions and they drive me crazy. If the description is in a language I don't speak then at least I know that I can skip it. But if it's auto-translated then I'll click on the repo, only then realize that I don't understand it, go back and try again with the next repo. The only situation in which I would welcome such a change would be if GitHub translated comments, function names, variable names, READMEs and all documentation (including screenshots and reference guides not hosted on GitHub) AND THEN translated my contributions back from my language to the original one.
- kzrdude 4y ago