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> Github appeals to the self-improvement, tomato-timer, fitbit crowd here. What a bunch of bullshit. It's a tool. Thousands upon thousands of people use it dai

> Github appeals to the self-improvement, tomato-timer, fitbit crowd here. What a bunch of bullshit. It's a tool. Thousands upon thousands of people use it daily because it helps them get stuff done. If you don't happen to like the way it's presented, fine, but that's a personal preference, not a lifestyle choice.

moe 14y ago
I'm sure you also wanted to say something about the points I made but alas your tomato timer rang before you got to it, right?
- tomchristie 14y ago
  No not really, I wanted to say something about the attitude. I didn't think the points merited response, because it's self-evident that the blanket statement of 'the data is useless' simply isn't the case. Anyway, let me be specific: 1. I can see why folks might want to be able to turn it on or off, but introducing visual inconsistency between different user profiles would feel pretty wonky to me. 2. Keeps the information dense. I don't need to know exactly what was committed in order for the information to be broadly useful. 3. Incorrect. 4. Recent = relevant. That's not to say that I think it's perfect - for example, the 'current streak' will tend to 0 days for most users as noted by other comments, but overall I think it hangs together pretty well.
  - beaumartinez 14y ago
    > Introducing visual inconsistency between different user profiles would feel pretty wonky to me If GitHub made the default tab your repos instead (as it was before), all profiles would be consistent. The default tab on projects is source—and projects can have optional wiki and issues tabs if they want. I think it should be the same with profiles' contributions tab.
robotresearcher 14y ago
You missed the word 'here'. The parent is talking about this one new feature, not GitHub as a whole. GitHub is great, but I agree with moe. This seems like gamification, and GitHub's magic is in collaboration and communication. This turns me off a bit, as it smells like GitHub is trying to hook me rather than providing a tool I want to use.

moe 14y ago

I'm sure you also wanted to say something about the points I made but alas your tomato timer rang before you got to it, right?

tomchristie 14y ago
No not really, I wanted to say something about the attitude. I didn't think the points merited response, because it's self-evident that the blanket statement of 'the data is useless' simply isn't the case. Anyway, let me be specific: 1. I can see why folks might want to be able to turn it on or off, but introducing visual inconsistency between different user profiles would feel pretty wonky to me. 2. Keeps the information dense. I don't need to know exactly what was committed in order for the information to be broadly useful. 3. Incorrect. 4. Recent = relevant. That's not to say that I think it's perfect - for example, the 'current streak' will tend to 0 days for most users as noted by other comments, but overall I think it hangs together pretty well.
- beaumartinez 14y ago
  > Introducing visual inconsistency between different user profiles would feel pretty wonky to me If GitHub made the default tab your repos instead (as it was before), all profiles would be consistent. The default tab on projects is source—and projects can have optional wiki and issues tabs if they want. I think it should be the same with profiles' contributions tab.

robotresearcher 14y ago

You missed the word 'here'. The parent is talking about this one new feature, not GitHub as a whole. GitHub is great, but I agree with moe. This seems like gamification, and GitHub's magic is in collaboration and communication. This turns me off a bit, as it smells like GitHub is trying to hook me rather than providing a tool I want to use.