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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 k
by 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 agoSorry, but one screenshot would be enough to demonstrate what the repository is about. So many project fail at this.
- tanvach 3y agolove to see what your project repo looks like as a comparison.
- recursive 3y agoThe website has more than one.
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoWhen 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 agoWhat purpose are you browsing projects on github? Genuine question, as I've never done this.
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoTo find active popular open source projects? How do you do it?
- skydhash 3y agoWord of mouth, organic exposure. I've only used github search only for a few time aside from quickly finding one of my repositories.
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoTypically github readme's are targeted at busy developers rather than beginner s as well. They also include a contributor guide so I can see how hackable some project I'm using is. I also prefer to use projects I wouldn't hate hacking on if forced to. So a PHP project has a much higher bar than aHaskell project. Github and other forges easily allow this approach.
- mihaic 3y agoI don't actively try to find active open source project, usually I stumble onto plenty of them from natural browsing/research for my own work That's why I was asking, why would you actively search for projects? To consider contributing or just out of curiosity?
- simonklitj 3y agoI disagree. Users, not just maintainers, discover projects through GitHub. In this context, the README effectively serves as a secondary project landing page. IMO, for a visual project like this, images, or a direct link to images, is a must.
- dylan604 3y agoThen a link to the website which is a much better medium for demonstrating software than README files would be a simple fix.
- prepend 3y agoThen a link to an example image on the web site is much better. The idea is to help people understand the project. Not to give them an investigation task. I don’t know the structure of that web site or if there are even images there.
- otterley 3y agoThe first time in your life that you learn that a project's code lives on GitHub and its documentation and marketing website are someplace else, you'll start looking for the website reference in the GitHub README or searching for it as a matter of course. It's really not that big a deal.
- prepend 3y agoIt’s not a big deal. It’s just a useful piece of documentation. I’m not heartbroken because of this gap, I’m just confused why they wouldn’t want to add these docs to help users.