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GitHub discussions used to be so much higher quality though when the platform was for professionals. Now, I see so many discussions that devolve into practicall
by cedws 4mo ago
GitHub discussions used to be so much higher quality though when the platform was for professionals. Now, I see so many discussions that devolve into practically being reddit/4chan threads. Another reason to leave.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 4mo agoI feel like it's gotten more professional. 10+ years ago people were dropping the hard R in pull request reviews, now everyone is acting like LinkedIn-speak and Stars will get them their next job
- rezonant 4mo ago...What? Is this the Linus Sebastian misconception of what the hard R is?
- stavros 4mo agoYeeeah I'm pretty sure I've never seen a hard R on a PR.
- anonymars 4mo agoI'm guessing they are referring to a certain synonym for idiot/moron/imbecile/cretin/dolt/etc. which fell off the euphemistic treadmill
- stavros 4mo agoYeah, that's the Linus "hard R" (he thought "hard R" referred to "retard"), but it's just wrong. "Hard R" is "nigger", in opposition to soft r ("nigga"). I don't think there's even a question, that's how hard/soft has always been used. Anything else is just confusion, I think.
- piperswe 4mo agoThat would be the “Linus Sebastian misconception”
- hogwasher 4mo agoOk, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.
- sph 4mo agoOnly on those posted to social media including Hacker News. There is no devolving into memes for niche discussions only interested parties know about. Don’t blame Github for getting spammed whenever an issue reaches the front page.
- cedws 4mo agoNot only. I see it across all of GitHub. Spam, +1 comments, feature begging are all particularly common.
- ZeWaka 4mo agoFeature begging on GH has been a thing since forever, I remember plenty of it 10 years ago.
- RobotToaster 4mo agoHell, I remember feature begging on developer mailing lists myself 20+ years ago. (To be fair I was 13 at the time)
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- wongarsu 4mo agoTo be fair, a lot of the users spamming and feature begging on github today are 13 right now
- hmry 4mo agoI wish HN would ban posting links to issue trackers with comment sections, like lobsters has done. Although the spam volume from HN and reddit is pretty small compared to that from youtube reaction video influencers
- throwaway2037 4mo ago> when the platform was for professionals When was that?
- phrotoma 4mo agoEternal September.