Showcasing interesting projects in Explore

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36 points·jodosha··8 comments

This is the first thing that has popped up in the "New Features" category that I really feel is just feature bloat from GitHub. I'm not saying that this isn't potentially kinda cool, but the feature just feels different. I think part of it was the addition of a "share" button. I just feel a bit off about this new feature.

Does this help with showcasing little-known projects? Basing it off of trending anything guarantees that the [currently] socially rich become richer.

The picks are staff-curated, they're not based on trending:

> We take the most interesting trending repositories and curate lists to explore by topic. A lot like the staff shelf at your local book store.

What I would like to see are user-curated lists or perhaps a way to tag repositories similar to the way you can now tag games on Steam.

OK, that line makes more sense now, thanks.

This looks sweet!

Is there a way to hit these via the API, or using RSS/(some nature of feed)?

I'd love to be able to set up a script to show me new repos in my chosen categories via IRC/XMPP/whatever.

EDIT: It looks like https://github.com/showcases.atom is a feed for showcases as a whole, but I don't see one for particular categories.

I miss "Platform/OS" -> OS's like Linux, BSD.. Platforms like browsers, xamarin, cordova, etc

Those are not on the "Software development tools" category.. :/

Ahh, just what I've always wanted. Good job. This looks cool.

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