Isn't this a misuse of Github? Surely there's a more suitable website for hosting a page with text and pictures than a source control system?
I don't mean to pick on this guy - I've seen an several repositories like this recently.
I don't mean to pick on this guy - I've seen an several repositories like this recently.
I mean, it’s a also a platform with an embeddable “gists” feature ostensibly for code snippets, but frequently used to access notes of all types. Clearly anyone who has ever typed a plaintext gist is also misusing GitHub.
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Dude, why do you care? It’s not a “project” in a traditional sense but it’s not hurting anything and if someone wants to store a cool readme in their account, why does it matter?
>For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
It's the simplicity. That's all. Making things easier and more accessible. I don't know how can I explain it more because that's the whole point of Github Pages, like on their site "Websites for you and your projects". And that's it.
As far as hosting dad's CV from 1980 goes, striving for "me too" good-enough web is exactly appropriate. Rational choice.
You know, facebook started off a social media and now it has become effectively a news outlet and entire Internet in some places. Google started as a search engine but now become many people's part of life.
When people start using services for everything, it's the service provider that is happily harvesting the data. Users end up being tied to a system that they find hard to replace. Github offers free hosting, free domain, free https certs, no need ssh, no need CMS, pretty neat and convenient, except now you depends on github's black box for hosting. Same for github APIs, which are not part of git, but github's proprietary technology. Wait until Github uses that as a leverage against you and you are forced to migrate off it.
Edit: I'm not saying don't use github. However, I would suggest not abusing it or become too dependent on it for things other than what it was designed to do.
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I personally have almost everything I write or do backed up in various git repo, why not? Literally my resume folder, with one file, has its own repo. Can I not push this to GitHub and share it?
Its not a source control system. I'm sure you know this but you are interacting with a website, not git itself.
Furthermore GitHub offers their pages feature which turns any repo into a website. If this was in gh-pages would that make it okay?
Or maybe it’s just easier to be overly-critical than to appreciate a cool way of sharing/saving information.
Upvoting because as others have pointed out this is a valid question.
If Github Pages wouldn't be a thing, I'd have been inclined to agree. Ever since, though, such usage of Github strikes me as fair game.