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I'd like that feature. There's no reason why GitHub can't have a little more pizzazz. A lot of us spend a great deal of time writing code, why not have some fun with it? As long as the core features remain intact and unencumbered with trivial things, I for one welcome the additions GitHub has been making and look forward to their continuing development.

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Without getting into too deep a discussion of features, this development attitude of “implement everything, let them use what they want” is historically awful. The developers lose focus on what they are making, the users lose focus on what they are using. Eventually a platform that does a great job of any of the ten things that yours does poorly is a superior product and its creators are praised for shipping such a clean and minimal product.

I think this kind of features are better served as browser extensions or maybe from the GitHub marketplace(?), as in not part of the core product but with an easy activation by the user and easy to discover. No need to pollute the product- I already use multiple browser extensions to declutter and simplify GitHubs UI

It's a status update for your profile page, what's with the slippery slope arguments here? It's not like they implemented a social feed where you can post updates, making it more like a legitimate social network.

What? I was referring to the development philosophy that I saw reflected in the above comment. I even said that I was not referring to any specific features, including this one.

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