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Before Microsoft bought them they were basically at a standstill and no new features were being added to the product. At least, that's my recollection of it, pe
by selykg 3y ago
Before Microsoft bought them they were basically at a standstill and no new features were being added to the product. At least, that's my recollection of it, perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThe big one-step-forward-five-steps-back UI redesign was before the acquisition, wasn’t it?
- ljm 3y agoOnly now is GH redesigning the UI to be fluid-width everywhere. And GitHub actions were basically sharing the infra of Azure Pipelines.
- aicez 3y agoAgreed. I vaguely recall that there were no new features for more than a year.
- midasuni 3y agoMy screwdriver doesn’t seem to need more features. It’s nice stable and reliable.
- jkrubin 3y agoPlease create a PAT to enable your screwdriver.
- johnfn 3y agoBefore the MS acquisition, Github didn't even have emoji reactions on comments in issue threads, so people just spammed +1s if they had the same issue. It was terrible. (You can still see evidence of this on older repos.) They also didn't have like 5 billion other features that we now take for granted. EDIT: Sorry, this is incorrect. GH did ship them prior to the MS acquisition. I do however remember them taking an EXTREMELY long time to ship emoji reactions, which struck me as a fairly trivial feature. I stand by the point that GH ships features faster post-acquisition, though.
- mdekkers 3y ago> Before the MS acquisition, Github didn't even have emoji reactions. I have never, ever in my professional life thought “I need an emoji for this”
- Springtime 3y agoThey had reactions two years prior as confirmed by their blog post[1] about it. [1] https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/ https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-request...
- johnfn 3y agoDang, you're right. Sorry about that. I remembered that reactions irked me for some reason, but I had incorrectly tied it to the MS acquisition. The real issue was this: it took Github an extremely long amount of time to add a feature as simple as reactions. Github was founded in '08, and didn't add reactions for another eight years! But I distinctly remember once MS acquired them, they started shipping features left and right, and features much larger than simple emoji reactions.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 3y agoThat's not true. Reactions on comments were implemented long before the acquisition. And people still did +1. On the other hand, what they didn't have was search locked behind a login screen.
- stabbles 3y agoBefore this gets downvoted, are there any notable features that could only have been added thanks to the Microsoft acquisition? I think GitHub actions are pretty successful, which may not have been developed by Microsoft as it was launched right after acquisition, but I guess it's easier to keep free since it runs on their own hardware. I don't immediately see copilot as a GitHub feature, but maybe that'll change for better or worse.
- johnfn 3y ago
- travoc 3y agoModern impact drivers are pretty amazing if you have more than one screw to operate.
- sen 3y agoYeah I don’t remember the last time I used a screw driver. Electric screw driver for tiny stuff (one of my fav tools of the last decade+) and a small impact driver for bigger screws.