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>I’d also be interested to see more social network-like features on GitHub.I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed

This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work.

>project chat

IRC/Slack/Discord already exist

>or even DMs

A new avenue for recruiter spam? No thank you.

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Agreed. HN and reddit are way better at helping me find repos that are relevant to my skill set and interest. It’s like the author doesn’t even try to utilize these other social spaces that have already largely solved this problem.

Sometimes I come across people whose idea of a perfect world is an app that knows exactly what to show them and when without any curiosity or effort, and it blows my mind. That is my hell.

I've spent a few hours on Github trying to find projects. The explore feature is absolutely useless.

I find HN and Reddit largely useless for finding new and interesting code.

The Reddit python subreddit is truly awful - it's just beginners sharing their first projects.

Whereas HN is largely biased to what's extremely popular and/or "cool".

Have you tried r/coolgithubprojects? There are a ton of great projects in that sub and you can filter by language, and they’re not all trendy.

I have. I like it but it's a shame it's not a bit more active.

> This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work.

A-men.

I recently set up a LinkedIn profile after avoiding them for many years, and was horrified to discover that there's now a "Facebook wall" feature, replete with all the horrible political conversations that made me abandon Facebook. It's totally in-your-face, too; it's the default home page and the default Android app page. I don't want to see what people I've connected on LinkedIn have to say about, well, anything. I only maintain social connections there to help me network with potential employers. I'm deleting my LinkedIn profile as soon as I connect with my next employer.

Unless recruiting or sales is part of your job, the best approach to LinkedIn is to set your profile up well, connect with the people you know and then go to Settings & Privacy -> Communications and switch on email notifications for direct messages you receive. Then you'll only ever have to login should you get an email about a message you might be interested in replying to.

There is absolutely nothing of value on LinkedIn for the average person beyond being a place to host your resume for discovery.

You don’t even need to log in for replying to messages. IIRC you can just reply to the email and that would get relayed.

Did not know that. Glad I dumped LinkedIn two years ago.

I wanted an online resume and refused to sign up for LinkedIn, so I built https://standardresume.co. It's free to use the web version and can automatically import the data from your LinkedIn profile. I'm curious to hear your thoughts if you have a few minutes to check it out.

> > project chat

> IRC/Slack/Discord already exist

Or even closer: gitter! Or just set up an irc/matrix room for your project.

> Or even closer: gitter!

I don't like their (electron) desktop app, I always end up using the IRC bridge if any

>IRC/Slack/Discord already exist

There's a discussion feature on beta (see https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions for example)

I'd definitely like this to become public soon

This would make GitHub Issues a bit more clean for sure. Lots of people use it for asking questions/for help instead of reporting actual issues/bugs.

As somebody who is guilty of this, my rationale is this: I went to slack/discord/IRC channels, asked for help and... almost no answer. Ask the same question in a comment of a popular issue or a new issue, and you get your answer (with some delay). The thing is that GH issues have replaces mailing lists/usenet for this kind of questions since the friction is way lower, it's async and the question goes to the right people.

>The thing is that GH issues have replaces mailing lists/usenet for this kind of questions

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