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What GitHub needs is a 'like' button, not new icons (so we don't have to `watch` projects we find interesting and want to somehow remember just in case - which

What GitHub needs is a 'like' button, not new icons (so we don't have to `watch` projects we find interesting and want to somehow remember just in case - which results in thousands of commits and pushes (every hour) in our news feed we absolutely don't care about).

reledi 14y ago
Agreed. The signal to noise ratio in my newsfeed is very low because of it. There exists some workarounds (e.g. https://www.codeshelver.com https://www.codeshelver.com) but I'd like to see GitHub fix the problem.
- pooriaazimi 14y ago
  I didn't know about CodeShelver! Thank you. I'll give it a try in a few days, but just a question: what happens if www.codeshelver.com dies tomorrow (assuming they save shelved repos on their server) or their Safari extension be buggy and it removes/corrupts all my precious repos (assuming it's the extension that saves the repos)? Will I lose everything?
  - reledi 14y ago
    I can't answer your question because I don't know about the inner workings of CodeShelver, but it's safest to assume you would lose everything (going off the assumption that they store the info on their own servers). You should also check out Gitmarks. Someone posted the link in a reply to my earlier comment.
- nyrb 14y ago
  Codeshelver looks nice. I have been using Gitmarks for a while and its amazing. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapnkkbolmjghhpiio https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapn...
  - reledi 14y ago
    Thanks for the link, Gitmarks looks nice as well.
igorgue 14y ago
[workaround] Use gitmarks: http://farmckon.github.com/gitmarks_2/ http://farmckon.github.com/gitmarks_2/
nuclear_eclipse 14y ago
I'd like to see something similar to Ohloh's "Uses This" feature.
memset 14y ago
Agreed. A nice "bookmark" feature. I think a book would be a great affordance for bookmark but that seems to be taken already by "new repository"
spullara 14y ago
Amusingly, it is the same behavior as the Facebook like button, except that Github's feed algorithm doesn't filter out things you likely don't care about.

reledi 14y ago

Agreed. The signal to noise ratio in my newsfeed is very low because of it. There exists some workarounds (e.g. https://www.codeshelver.com https://www.codeshelver.com) but I'd like to see GitHub fix the problem.

pooriaazimi 14y ago
I didn't know about CodeShelver! Thank you. I'll give it a try in a few days, but just a question: what happens if www.codeshelver.com dies tomorrow (assuming they save shelved repos on their server) or their Safari extension be buggy and it removes/corrupts all my precious repos (assuming it's the extension that saves the repos)? Will I lose everything?
- reledi 14y ago
  I can't answer your question because I don't know about the inner workings of CodeShelver, but it's safest to assume you would lose everything (going off the assumption that they store the info on their own servers). You should also check out Gitmarks. Someone posted the link in a reply to my earlier comment.
nyrb 14y ago
Codeshelver looks nice. I have been using Gitmarks for a while and its amazing. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapnkkbolmjghhpiio https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapn...
- reledi 14y ago
  Thanks for the link, Gitmarks looks nice as well.

igorgue 14y ago

[workaround] Use gitmarks: http://farmckon.github.com/gitmarks_2/ http://farmckon.github.com/gitmarks_2/

nuclear_eclipse 14y ago

I'd like to see something similar to Ohloh's "Uses This" feature.

memset 14y ago

Agreed. A nice "bookmark" feature. I think a book would be a great affordance for bookmark but that seems to be taken already by "new repository"

spullara 14y ago

Amusingly, it is the same behavior as the Facebook like button, except that Github's feed algorithm doesn't filter out things you likely don't care about.