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My client side bookmarks tend to be a bit of a black hole (or possibly a thunderdome). Many things enter, but very few find their way back out to my eyeballs.
by stock_toaster 15y ago
My client side bookmarks tend to be a bit of a black hole (or possibly a thunderdome). Many things enter, but very few find their way back out to my eyeballs.
Perhaps I have bookmark-itus. I bookmark many things I may find interesting later, or want to remember. I end up searching through my bookmarks more often than not, because there are so many of them.
As to watching, I use it to get notified if a project I am interested in has updated, made changes that are meaningful to me, or has come back to life after a long silent period, or if it is something I want to look into later but don't particularly want to have the full update feed for.
That last part would be fulfilled handily by an internal github 'star' or 'bookmark' system. There are stars for gists, why not projects?
*note: I use pinboard.in, which is great.
- freshhawk 15y agoYeah, I think I might have been too harsh on the star idea. I absolutely have bookmark-itus, but because of that I have a good bookmark system where I can set a date or interval for it to remind me that the bookmark exists. I think I took this idea from the GTD tickler concept. I can see the use case for "tell me if this project has done something interesting (determine that magically) but I don't want to see every commit cluttering my feed" type features on github. Just don't break the feed to do it. It's clearly a secondary use case for the feed. I'm also not sure if this use case is something actually useful rather than just stimulating to users. A site using this idea and github integration along with some Zynga math to optimize the dopamine dispensing combined with twitter, HN and the rest of social news would make sure that I felt like a hacker and never actually produced anything.
- stock_toaster 15y agoI agree that breaking the feed would be wrong. The feed should include everything. I also feel that github would be well served to provide an alternative mechanism to 'remember' projects so users can stop trying to shoehorn the functionality of the feed to suit that need.