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I use GitHub every day. I’ve never used the “feed” for anything. I don’t think Ive ever seen a recommendation for anything.

Who uses this? Are people discovering projects through GitHub? I typically find them through other sites that just direct link. Or mostly from colleagues as we have several hundred repos in my org.

This seems like a horrible feature GitHub added, but seems easy to avoid.

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Github is going through the same enshittification as many other tech companies. Features are being made so that management can show their team is up to something useful.

Agreed. The good news is that so far most (all?) of the enshittification-oriented changes have been easy to ignore. Gamified badges? Who cares, I never look at the profile any way. Feed of bullshit recommendations? Who cares, I never look at it. Now, it probably is still a bad thing, but as a daily GH user, it hasn't impacted me much so far.

I used the feed to check projects people I follow are starring or contributing to.

I used the Explore tab to find new and interesting repositories.

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