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GitHub's Explore Email
- caiob 13y agoSuper duper. :)
- jinx_xnij 13y agoI really liked the design that you use to choose which level of newsletter subscription you want to sign up for. Clean, simple, and straightforward.
- unknownian 13y agoAnyone else disappointed in the Explore page's redesign? It's harder to navigate and they deleted the Languages portal.
- diggan 13y agoYou're probably looking at the wrong page. Have a look here instead: https://github.com/trending?l=javascript https://github.com/trending?l=javascript
- hk__2 13y agoYou can’t see the list of the most popular languages anymore.
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- mattgreenrocks 13y agoThere's no harm in that. :)
- subsection1h 13y agoThe following search displays the top 10 languages on the left side of the page: https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E=0 https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E=0
- diggan 13y agoLike it! Let's hope it comes in right time (before morning/during night in Spain) so I can read it with the morning coffee. However, I would have loved to select which language/languages I'm interested in since if a project is in Python it's not as interesting for me as if it was in JavaScript.
- dewski 13y agoWe deliver these emails in the user's time zone so you'll receive it at 9am local time and have something fresh to start the day with.
- mogrim 13y agoAs another Spanish based worker, a little earlier would be better - at 7, say, something to read over breakfast. But that's a very minor complaint!
- vbsteven 13y agoI'm also an advocate of receiving the email sooner. Why not send it shortly after midnight in the users timezone so it sits in the users inbox when he wakes up. At 9AM I'm already at work, had 2 cups of coffee, finished my morning tech news and started getting in the zone.
- MartinMcGirk 13y agoIdeally the user would choose the time the mail gets delivered. I have to have my phone on during the night in case of emergency and there is nothing more infuriating to me than a company that sends me email in the middle of the night, causing my phone to beep and wake me up.
- ultrafez 13y agoTake control of your phone: use an app like Tasker to set up profiles to silence notifications except for ones you specify, like phone calls and messages from certain numbers.
- LukeWalsh 13y agoFirstly, I really love github explore. Having said that I still have yet to feel the need for one of these services that blindsides me with content just because I forgot I need it. I understand that it drives more traffic to the site, but is it really worth saving the time of typing https://github.com/explore https://github.com/explore?
- colinbartlett 13y agoI guess that's the reason it's opt-in. Some people want "push" some people want "pull". Personally, I intentionally keep my incoming stream very lean. I like aggregators like this, Ruby Weekly, JS Weekly, etc.
- nealrs 13y agoI'm late to the party - but a few months back I started http://gitat.me http://gitat.me specially to highlight useful & interesting repos that don't make it to the trending page.
- zenburnmyface 13y agoMy email is already too full -- how about a Twitter feed? My friend did this one: https://twitter.com/mathisonian/status/399348431291817985 https://twitter.com/mathisonian/status/399348431291817985
- binarycrusader 13y agoMy twitter feed is too full already -- I'll stick with the email. Twitter is particularly annoying at limiting the amount of entries in my timeline that it will show from the past as it is.
- esja 13y agoI wish GitHub had a page like this: http://stackoverflow.com/users http://stackoverflow.com/users
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- Chris911 13y agoThey kinda do. But again based on the user's repos. https://github.com/trending/developers?since=weekly https://github.com/trending/developers?since=weekly
- swanson 13y agohttps://github.com/search?q=repos%3A%3E0&type=Users&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?q=repos%3A%3E0&type=Users&ref=sear... Users with at least one repo - sorted by magical "Best Match".
- esja 13y agoThat's great, thank you! Just needs a prominent link somewhere and this would be super-useful as a starting point. Especially in the Enterprise product.
- daGrevis 13y agoA bit confusing that there isn't any submit button or other indicator that shows me that my preference is saved. Otherwise, a cool feature; didn't know about it until now.
- sbarre 13y agoYou do get immediate feedback "Subscribed!" directly below the radio button when you click it, and the box you choose turns green. It felt pretty obvious to me.
- riffraff 13y agothe box turning green feels as having selected something, not actually submitted, and the "Subscribed!" line is far from the where you did the action, and disappears after a moment. I don't know if this is a good design or not, just sharing my opinion as someone else who took a bit to understand I had actually subscribed. I also was sort of expecting the example to change :/
- LordIllidan 13y agoI had the exact same feeling - I was unsure of whether I should be seeing a "save" button or not - and I didn't know whether the site had saved my response automatically. It's a very subtle approach, but it's a little too subtle for my taste.
- joshdick 13y agoThere's is an indicator: When you choose a subscription frequency, "Subscribed!" appears beneath the box. It disappears after just a few seconds, though. That might be why you missed it.
- colinbartlett 13y agoKudos for having the smoothest subscription process I've ever seen. One click, instant!
- jmduke 13y agoAs much as I love GitHub, I think the exploration paradigm could use a little work -- it seems to have something of a flywheel effect, where popular repositories receive more exposure, thus more stars/forks/watches, thus appear as 'trending', thus become more popular. (For example: currently trending as #3 in Python today is the official Django repository; and trending as #2 today is the official AirBNB javascript style guide, which has been boasting around 4,000 stars and hasn't been updated in around ten years.) I'd kill for a GitHub StumbleUpon: click a button (filtering for, say, vertical or programming language) and get transported to a repository that has a baseline level of merit (say, at least three stars).
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- jmduke 13y agoWell, that was a double whammy of me typing 'ten years' instead of 'ten months' and also reading the wrong commit timestamp. I think my point is still valid, but thanks for pointing that out -- awesome work, btw!
- _harry 13y agoI deleted my comment because I realized it was tangential to your point and don't want to sidetrack discussion. Carry on!
- hashtree 13y agoI've found one of the best ways to do the "stubmleupon" concept is to follow dozens of devs who star interesting repos (sometimes solely for that reason) and check your news stream often. I follow devs from a wide variety of backgrounds, which yields numerous libraries that I might not otherwise be aware of (and sometimes months ahead of HN exposure). One of the best things I've done with my GitHub account. A solid example is: https://github.com/fogus https://github.com/fogus
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- himbeere 13y agoWhat about a filter which allows me to exclude repositories that use certain languages?
- j_baker 13y agoI really like the way github is doing this. I'm irritated by the way other sites (linkedin, quora) automatically assume I must want their emails every X interval. I like that with github I can choose how frequently I get emails and that it's opt-in.
- richardburton 13y agoI built an iPhone app that shows you all of the trending repositories that use the languages you like. It's called Repo; if you're interested in checking it out, you can download it (for free) by going to: http://appstore.com/repo http://appstore.com/repo
- kbar13 13y agoWould I just get emails for rethinkdb forever? <realtalk>Bring back the old trending page!</realtalk>
- Vilkku 13y agoWould be pretty great to have this as an RSS feed (one daily/weekly/monthly item). I hesitate to subscribe to the email, but I wouldn't mind getting a the daily version in my RSS feeds. Now that I mention it, some kind of service where I could get all emails from as RSS would be pretty neat. EDIT: Seems like there is one! http://www.mmmmail.com/ http://www.mmmmail.com/ However, I'm hardly able to just change my github email to that and have password reset emails etc be available to the public in the RSS feed. Best solution would be some kind of Gmail filter, where all emails with a specific tag would be available in the feed.
- yawaramin 13y agoHow about an RSS/Atom feed? I'm not crazy about signing up for another email. And what happened to the 'Ref Log'?
- _prometheus 13y agoIt would be awesome if they tracked something like most used repositories, not just most starred. Like https://sourcegraph.com/repos https://sourcegraph.com/repos
- dustin1114 13y agoCool idea. I thought every day wouldn't be as special, so I went for every week. I'm looking forward to seeing some new projects...maybe some to contribute to.
- vinhnx 13y agoI've been subscribing to GithubArchive for awhile now, they send me top new & watched repos right in my inbox daily. I think we should check it out: http://www.githubarchive.org/ http://www.githubarchive.org/
- bloometal 13y agoFor some reason I have a suspicion that Github Trending is game-able. I tweeted once about this suspect repo that had 3000+ stars and all it said was something like "Hello to all github trending viewers" or something along those lines. Link to the author of that repo: https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer What remains of the repo is visible in his profile. Anybody have a clue as to how he did it?
- MarkTee 13y agoThe author details how he did it here: http://thehackerblog.com/how-i-got-5000-github-followers-in-less-than-24-hours/ http://thehackerblog.com/how-i-got-5000-github-followers-in-...
- xpop2027 13y agoNow that is the proper way to get someone to subscribe to emails.. so easy with great options.
- forlorn 13y agoI love to use http://www.githubarchive.org/ http://www.githubarchive.org/ . Found it on 'Show HN' half a year ago or so.
- Xelom 13y agoI don't know everyone but exploring github day to day is an entertainment for me. Your thought about mail is good but doesn't work for some people.
- SnacksOnAPlane 13y agoIs there a way to set the Explore emails to go to a different address than the primary? I set my primary as my work address, because most of my repos are work-related, but I'd like this email to go to my gmail.