Github is not a social media

[ryuukk]

Subject: Feedback about "For you" feature

I don't think Github needs facebook/instagram like features

I personally don't care about what people like/fork, and i don't want people to know what i do either, i just need a better search and better tagging system so i can search for libraries/projects based on MY SEARCH and MY INTERESTS, not based on a biased one developed with AI

What's next? stories?

Let's use the previous Microsoft acquisition to know why it's a bad idea, i'll let everyone be judge

• skype
• linkedin

Invest in what matter, not what makes you look like out of touch

• better search
• better project management
• better file browsing

I think it is waste of effort, resources and time..

EDIT: I tried to remove the emotional parts and unnecessary aggressively/attacks

[diademiemi]

It's a home feed, how is this related to search features?

I don't see how it's worse than what was already in place, you already had a feed on people you follow, why not add recommendations?

[Siphalor]

In fact, there were already recommendations, they were just terribly unrelated to the actual interests most of the time - so I don't think a lot of people actually used them.

While the new feed arguably has more clear space and is more broad by design, I'm ok with it being an additional tab.

[diademiemi]

I think the algorithm still has to be worked on, it's showing too many things just completely unrelated from what I'm interested in. But if they can tune it to recommend stuff in only languages or concepts I've previously shown interest in, I think it could become a great feature.
I don't think it should replace the chronological feed, and it shouldn't become the default either. But it being a tab on the home page seems great to me.

[Siphalor]

Yeah, while the new suggestions actually seem pretty fitting for me, I still like the main feed as a place where I can actually see what people I'm following are up to (and what's happening on my projects).

[sntwandy]

Calm down mate, it's just a home feed, for me it's useful if I want to see what my peers or people I follow do, maybe the repositories to fork or mark it as a favorite seem interesting to me, I've discovered many things thanks to that feature.
It's just a feature. xd

[ryuukk]

I am not on facebook/instagram because i don't want people to know what tf i am doing

Plus, there are no Privacy settings on the github's option menu, i'm pretty sure this breaks GDPR

[Siphalor]

I am not on facebook/instagram because i don't want people to know what tf i am doing

Plus, there are no Privacy settings on the github's option menu, i'm pretty sure this breaks GDPR

If you don't want everyone to know what you're working on, then you either have to keep your pseudonym private or open-source is just not your thing.
Open-source is by definition open, so everyone will be able to see what you've committed.

Well I don't think this breaks GDPR at all.
When you agree to the terms of service, then you agree to GitHub processing your data in certain ways.
If you don't agree to that, you can request deletion of your data (per GDPR) or just not use GitHub at all.
There are a lot of alternatives out there, but be warned: Open-source means open-source.

[ryuukk]

I don't think users leaving is what Github wants, i also doesn't want to leave Github, i want its features to improve and usability to be improved

This work is orthogonal to what i personally need from Github, hence the reason i say it is a waste of resources (i'm not saying it's good or bad)

When you agree to the terms of service, then you agree to GitHub processing your data in certain ways.

That doesn't mean we can't debate about it and question it

Also they'd need to update it and ask us to agree it again, they haven't done any of it, so yes, i'm pretty sure that breaks GDPR

[Torphedo]

Is this about the For You section on the home page? I hadn't seen it before now, but I like it. It showed me some really cool and useful repos I otherwise wouldn't have seen.

[ryuukk]

Yes, it is about the new "For you" feature

[polopopeye]

In my opinion, github is a social network for programmers, not a social media...

Here we can meet great developers, learn about new apps and see their work, of course not in a traditional way like Facebook or Instagram to post pictures and photos, but yes to post your code or see those of others.

[ryuukk]

I can understand that, but the way it is implemented doesn't seem to be good, to my standard

I personally do not want to be tracked, therefore i'd appreciate a way to opt-out completely

[titivermeesch]

I honestly like the idea of seeing what other people are into. I'm not saying that there should come Github Stories or Github Shorts, but having a quick overview of what other people are up to, what their points of interests are definitely seems a good idea to me.

[jdevfullstack]

there is a new update on the For You feed, you can now filter it, and for those who don't want it can simply disable it by unchecking all filters