Why do developer companies keep thinking they are aocial twitter-facebook-like things?
It goes from small things like hiding exact timestamps behind meaningless "2d ago" to this bullshit
It goes from small things like hiding exact timestamps behind meaningless "2d ago" to this bullshit
Because open source is significantly social in nature; it's not just an available blob of code. I don't necessarily agree with their direction, but the social aspect is certainly a foundational component.
Github has always been a social tool without the need for a newsfeed-type thing.
GitHub has always had various activity feeds. Here are two early screenshots from 2008:
> Project and Developer News Feeds - Keep tabs on your favorite projects and the people that work on them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081113115832/http://github.com...
> Public Developer Profiles - See what other developers are working on and how many commits they've made
https://web.archive.org/web/20081113115936/http://github.com...
From https://web.archive.org/web/20081111061111/http://github.com...
Sure, the one sentence you picked, taken out of context, makes it look like I'm generally against feeds. When you put it in the broad context of my comment though, you can easily see that it's the AI bit that's the problem.
> I think the issue is not with it being social in general, but rather with it becoming a similar flavour of social to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I'm sorry I didn't understand you were using "flavour" to indicate AI, I just thought you were referencing social features in general, it wasn't that clear to me, sorry for that.
Because that's been their main selling point since day one. Git hosting + social coding platform. I guess because they became the leading code hosting platform in the world, they think that that's because of their social features. What you're seeing today is just a continuation of what they always have been doing.
In github, if you hover your mouse over a time like "2 days ago", the tooltip will give you the exact timestamp. However, I can't find any way to easily copy this into your clipboard (for that I guess you have to go to your old friend "git show" or "git log")
I became less annoyed with GitHub when I learned that they put the timestamp in the mouse over hovertext.