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I've noticed since Microsoft acquired Github, the "explore" tab has been more and more useless.

It's been months since it displays me the same repositories, and significantly less than before.

I don't know if it's related, but the timing is suspicious.

Explore has been… unuseful to me for years before MS bought GitHub.

I find it interesting that it sometimes shows my very own repositories (or repositories of one of my organizations) within the 'Explore repositories' section on the dashboard. As if I didn't know those repositories yet.

I sort by date to get around this and it helps a lot.

Side note: I also do this in HN Algolia search and it still annoys me that the default sort setting doesn’t work.

It's for people that want to find issues to work on in random repos, I suppose.

It does not only show issues, but also other content. What would you consider useful information?