Poor execution on a great idea imo.<p>To me it feels like they sacrificed functionality for aesthetics. It's not the right trade-off to make for a professional tool. I don't want my Github feed to be Facebook-like. I'd rather have it be compact and useful. A feature that'd let me browse by "topic" (e.g systems programming) regardless of language would be welcome as well.<p>In this update, the three culprits are the font-size, the spacing (so much space wasted) and the (slow) auto-load. It wasn't great before but this is most definitely worse.<p>Dear Github, please make technology discovery <i>efficient</i> rather than pretty. I spend hundreds of hours on your platform. You could save me a lot of time focusing on the <i>right</i> stuff.<p>It's a shame because there's so much potential there.
But why is the Browse Activity tab now full of huge bolded text and gobs of whitespace? I wasn't unhappy with how it was, but this seems to strictly be worse, especially if you follow a decent number of people
It's good to see the homepage get more attention. I personally would love a more Facebook-like news feed. There is so much interesting activity on GitHub, but I generally discover it all through Twitter, HN, Reddit, etc.
Wow, I'd never heard of Rails before. What a great recommendation. /s<p>Am I just a curmudgeon, or does every step that GitHub takes these days seem like wrong one? Everything, from small design changes, to the results of their discovery engines, to the pricing and offering of there paid services, just seems to get worse over time.<p>As somebody who visits GitHub more than any other page, it makes me a bit said. I do hope they can turn it around or GitLab will come up on them fast.
I hit <a href="https://github.com/trending" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trending</a> as a lower-priority time-filler day-to-day. It is a "top 25" of most starred today, also viewable per programming language.<p>Unfortunately some of the slots are wasted on ever-popular projects which are always on the list, particularly in some of the more esoteric languages. It is also interesting to see how few stars are required to hit the language-specific top 25, especially on weekends/holidays.<p>No matter how awesome GitHub Discover's predictions someday grow to be, it's always useful to monitor the collective wisdom of the crowds.
I use <a href="http://usepanda.com/" rel="nofollow">http://usepanda.com/</a> for browsing through trending GitHub repos and read all tech related news. It has a nice feature of viewing feeds in columns. Great for spending two hours in the morning.
For me, the third repo they suggest is:<p><pre><code> csurfer/gitsuggest
A tool to suggest github repositories based on the
repositories you have shown interest in.
</code></pre>
So meta.
Wow didn't know there was a open source roller coaster tycoon 2 clone, that would be interesting to mod into some sort of server traffic representation.
So, I have multiple GitHub accounts, and the recommendations — purportedly based on stars & people I follow — are identical for both. They are also really, <i>really</i> bad (I don't program in JavaScript, or .net, or Julia).
I was certain that this would be some sort of JS library filled with buzzwords. Instead, the very first hit was this: <a href="https://github.com/k4m4/movies-for-hackers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/k4m4/movies-for-hackers</a>. RIP my time management for the next month...
Took a look and still prefer to use Github Trending: <a href="https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=weekly" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=weekly</a><p>I have a lot of JS blogs/twitters/subscriptions that I use to keep up-to-date, and generally most of the articles I read will appear in the first couple of pages of the trending repositories.
Hi guys,
Make end users evaluate the product <i>as early as possible</i>, that's the methodology.
Maybe what you have seen today is an pre-alpha version of the github recommendation product, they will gather your comments and decide what to create.<p>- The feed design is poor, I don't like the alway black bold font for every repo name, but they keep blue font for branch name.
It either recommended stuff I already new about and use (even if I have never forked or contributed) or stuff that was not interesting at all to me. I might be an outlier here of course. I wonder how much fine tuning of their algorithm is possible though.
Good to see some work on the homepage, but there's still so much potential! I wish I could mark activity messages as read and remove them from the feed. It should behave more as an "inbox"
Notifications are coming to Github soon? <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24463350/31359811-6ae670b6-ad00-11e7-9e7d-fe35a591494d.png" rel="nofollow">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24463350/31359811-...</a>
Random selection of repositories would be better. Perhaps with a filter filtering out anything with too many stars.<p>Reason: I know 80-90% of recommended projects.