New GitHub Explore Features

github.com

31 points·oBeLx··8 comments

If github is reading this, I would love to be able to explore by ``genre''. I'm not really interested in a lot of the popular repos on github that are flashy js libraries or whatever.

It can be harder to find repos that are, for example, Security related (that aren't the big famous ones like metasploit, SET).

edit: To clarify...since typing ``security'' into github obviously yields so many results. It's hard to weed out the junk I guess..but I guess that's the very nature of the Search bar.

This is difficult, because it relies on people to set a genre for their repo. The things they did to explore here, and the ability to explore by language, are based on data they have.

But there does need to be a way to view/manage all your (and others) starred repos. I have many dozens starred in many different categories, that I no longer have a use for stars because there are so many. I am residing to maintaining my own list of projects elsewhere grouped into buckets.

I've been kicking around the idea for a while of building a site that allows people to tag github repos, so other people can search for things like "javascript game engine" and come up with relevant results. Glad to see others may be looking for this.

If you enjoy using the Explore section of GitHub, you might also like this (free) iPhone app I made which lists the popular Repos built using the languages that interest you: http://appstore.com/repo

Anything that makes it easier to find repos I might be interested in makes me happy.

Yeah, I wish the search supported wild card search though, that would make repo discovery even easier.

For a "social coding" site it still surprises me that they don't have a more obvious way to browse users.

The "starred by people I follow" feature is exactly what I have been waiting for.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com