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I’m interested that this project, and many other visual projects, don’t have example images in their readme.

• Ecco 3y ago
  Agreed. It’s a freaking image generator yet there is zero sample picture on their GitHub page… That’s terrible :-/
  • sorokod 3y ago
    stellarium.org link is on the GitHub landing page twice - chill.
    • prepend 3y ago
      I followed that link and didn’t see any images there. I could also google “stellarium project images” but I think my point is that I would expect projects to be as explicit as possible about “this is what we make.”
      • slater 3y ago
        There's a "view screenshots" link front and center on stellarium.org here ya go: http://stellarium.org/screenshots.html http://stellarium.org/screenshots.html
      • cbsks 3y ago
        Maybe your ad blocker is acting up? I see a carousel with 5 images and a link to the full screenshots.
• skydhash 3y ago
  The project website is at http://stellarium.org/ http://stellarium.org/. There is no need to have images inside a project repository. Every maintainer already knows what it looks like. What next? Marketing materials?
  • BonoboIO 3y ago
    Sorry, but one screenshot would be enough to demonstrate what the repository is about. So many project fail at this.
    • tanvach 3y ago
      love to see what your project repo looks like as a comparison.
    • recursive 3y ago
      The website has more than one.
      • ParetoOptimal 3y ago
        When quickly browsing github projects to see what's worth my time I don't always click the website link. I likely skip over repos with no screenshot much more.
        • mihaic 3y ago
          What purpose are you browsing projects on github? Genuine question, as I've never done this.
          • ParetoOptimal 3y ago
            To find active popular open source projects? How do you do it?
            • skydhash 3y ago
              Word of mouth, organic exposure. I've only used github search only for a few time aside from quickly finding one of my repositories.
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• degenerate 3y ago
  I imagine some OSS authors don't consider someone visiting the GitHub readme before visiting their website. I can't fathom thinking like that, but it must have never crossed their mind. Here's the screenshots: https://stellarium.org/screenshots.html https://stellarium.org/screenshots.html
• daniel-thompson 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screenshots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screensh...
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• deadbabe 3y ago
  What’s more amazing to me is that for open source projects like this where anyone can contribute, people would rather complain about the lack of a screenshot instead of submitting a pull request adding a screenshot to the README. You could probably become a very prolific contributor just by adding a screenshot to every such repo you come across.
  • Kharacternyk 3y ago
    I imagine a lot of such pull requests wouldn't be merged.
    • deadbabe 3y ago
      I submitted one, it may never be merged, but at least now I can say I tried. And isn’t that what open source is about?
      • Kharacternyk 3y ago
        If it requires little effort, it's fine, but generally before working on something one should ask the maintainers whether the status quo is deliberate.
        • deadbabe 3y ago
          They are free to reject the pull request. The worst they can say is no.
• bee_rider 3y ago
  I wonder if it is just a change over time? I expect READMEs to be formatted primarily to be opened in the terminal… nice 80 column plain text files.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    This is my primary experience with READMEs as well. I feel like this is one of those new users not appreciating the history and morphing into something they understand with zero interest in the old ways
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