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Sounds like a brogrammer to me. If I am watching a project I usually give input to the pull requests and bugs. To me watching is being a bit more involved than
by shtylman 15y ago
Sounds like a brogrammer to me. If I am watching a project I usually give input to the pull requests and bugs. To me watching is being a bit more involved than a simple 'like'. Sometimes I feel like too many projects are based around the idea of "I will only develop it if people are watching it" instead of trying to solve a real problem for the author and going from there.
- pnathan 15y agoWell, there's also the responsibility thing: if I have (say), 10K watchers, I would feel responsible to keep mySweetProject running and maintained. Whereas if there were 0 watchers, I'd feel fine about ignoring it. I totally agree with the other poster in this thread that said the idea of "following" and "hey this is a neat project" is conflated in github. I'd like to favourite projects for further observation/interest, but I have no real desire to watch their progress day by day.
- StavrosK 15y agoThere's that, but "users" and "watchers" are different. I care about actual users more.
- redcircle 15y ago> Sounds like a brogrammer to me. Is that necessary? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- shtylman 15y agoSorry. I just couldn't get over the complaining about loosing "followers" like that was the whole point of the project :/