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The feed is terible #58441
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Select Topic AreaProduct Feedback BodyNo one asked for it everyone hates it waste of space like no one wants for github to become another algorithm driven "for you feed" |
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Yes, "for you" is an incredible waste of space. |
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YOURE RIGHT! |
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"For you" should stay with social media where it belongs. |
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Was the best UI, now it's the worst one. |
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It is very distracting for me. I often find myself logging into Github to accomplish a task, but finding myself checking out some trending new repo instead. GitHub is supposed to be a productivity tool. The less time spent in GitHub should be considered a good thing. The engagement driven fyp doesn't belong here. It feels like it has been thought up by some growth hacker focusing on a time-spent-on-site metric and does not stem from what users actually want, ie accomplishing their task as fast as possible. |
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They should really make it opt in |
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The "For You" page is the reason why I enter github only via my bookmarks directly linking to the repository I'm currently working on. |
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I come here to do work. To be productive. Not to try and "discover cool new projects". That's what I have HackerNews and web search for. I want my projects, my organizations, my tasks front and center. That is what a dashboard is supposed to be! Stop social media-ing everything, please. |
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I guess I would also add that I'm not completely opposed to a "Discover" tab or page or something. That's where this sort of thing belongs. In its own little section. Not as the primary function of my own dashboard. |
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I'm with @GregDomzalski here. THIS IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA. I'm here to get work done. |
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Its a waste of energy. Makes GitHub a social media trashcan. I want to know whats going on in my organizations, not whats going on with a repo I starred at some point. |
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Is Github going to sell my data?Github is a productivity website, not a social media website. Those two types of websites have nearly antithetical goals and intentions to one another. You CANNOT be both. Social sites sell your dataSocial sites are all about getting you to stay on the site as long as possible so they can farm and sell as much data on you as possible. Suggestions will become glorified adsIt starts off simple enough, "you can pay to promote your repo". It's not an "ad", no, never. It's a promotion! We're just helping small communities grow! Then it gets insidious because marketers get involved and are used to having access to personal information on their targets. So you start selling "premium promotions" where you can target and what 3rd party services they log into with Github... At that point, all suggestions are useless because they are ALL ads. Feeds are an accessibility issueFeeds (especially infinite ones) are well known for exploiting psychology to trap individuals. Like seriously, I'm ADHD. The UI has gotten so cluttered that I can't obviously tell what's relevant to me. That wouldn't be a problem if I was casually browsing Github because I was bored... Conclusion: Github is actively rotting but is salvageableThe feed isn't the problem. It's the implications of them NOT running away from the idea. The answer is easy: Make it opt-in You don't even have to get rid of it. But you can absolutely get lost if you try to make me use it. Sorry for the TEDx talk, but I'm just thoroughly convinced that they are afraid we'd crucify them if they were honest with why they did this. Edit: Typo |
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@PurpleBored lol, I guess my ADHD forcing me to hyperfocus this for 2 hours wasn't for naught XD I also ended up writing a TamperMonkey (plugin) script that finds and deletes elements from whatever Github page I'm viewing. Mostly targeting the entire sidebar or specific feed related elements. Turns out, I don't need or want like 50% of what I'm shown by Github. Searching through some other threads, I am just resorting to using bookmarks as my only way of interacting with Github. If their UI can't give me the means to navigate it well, I'll just make the means for myself. Thanks to my therapist and some significant strides in personal acceptance after my adult diagnosis of ADHD, self-accommodations are just a normal thing to me now. But I can't help but feel like I shouldn't NEED them to use a productivity tool. |
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I do not have ADHD (at least that I know of), but I wholeheartedly agree that Feeds, Follows, Recommendations, Suggestions, For You, etc belong to social media platforms, not to ANY kind of working environment. This isn't Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or LinkedIn and I don't want to "engage" with GitHub in the same way I would have to engage with those social media platforms. Furthermore, Microsoft keeps forgetting that both Visual Studio and GitHub are also used by a large number of individual developers and focuses on designing everything for and around teams, going as far as to either nag people to use team features (best case), or actively force those features on everyone (worst case). Then there's the matter of not giving me as a user any choice. For example, someone has chosen to follow my personal GitHub account. Nobody asked for my consent to be followed. I understand that I cannot stop someone determined from manually stalking me, but why make it easy for them by allowing them to subscribe to my every action? It is creepy and unnecessary, especially in a work environment. Finally, please stop with "For You", "Recommendations", "Suggestions", etc sections everywhere — you don't know what I want better than I do, and the fact that you believe otherwise and insist on shoving that down my throat just shows how arrogant and rude you are. Every time I see that I feel insulted and bullied. JUST. STOP. IT. ALREADY. Thank you for your time. |
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Ooh, a new feed! Maybe it will show me things from projects I have actually interacted with! Oh, what's that, it's just random crap? Oh, you want me to have to actually follow project instead of just showing what makes sense? Oh, okay... yeah, no. |
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GitHub functions as a productivity-oriented platform rather than a social media platform, and these two categories of websites fundamentally oppose each other in their purposes. It is not feasible for a website to simultaneously serve both roles. However, GitHub has been incorporating additional features that are specifically designed for social media sites. This indicates a shift towards prioritizing entertainment over its core usefulness. As we look ahead, there is a concern that GitHub might compromise its productivity-focused aspects in pursuit of profit, even if it means hindering users' productivity. |
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I agree, I feel the new releases of Github are just looking more & complex in the UI. The main reason why I love(d) Github was because it had such a friendly UI. But now I feel they are just complicating the UI. There's so many "new" things, that really aren't helpful and take you away from the core reasons / core workflows that one needs to perform during the day. |
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I'm trying to focus on my code, and this is just distracting and completely irrelevant and I'm wasting time continuously clicking on 'less of this' to no avail. Please give me the ability to disable this annoying feature. I'm currently trialing github with a view to moving from our internally hosted gitlab instance to cloud hosted github. Can you guess how that's going when I'm feeling aggravated by this 'feature'? |
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Its garbage. I want a list of things I need to do.
And that is pretty much it. The home page redesign is useless to me. |
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TL;DR: Keep shoving this down our throats and we'll make somewhere else to go. We're devs, after all. I was hoping that when MS bought this platform that they would just leave it alone, but was skeptical considering MS history. I am sad that skepticism is proven right. Social media platforms are failing. People are tired of being manipulated. How would MS managers feel if the first 10 min of EVERY meeting you have you must play a video advertising my app, and AI on cameras watches to make certain you watch, and your pay is docked if you don't? Your engagement tripe is being shoved in our faces and while you can't dock (most of) our pay, it feels like you are since you're taking time out of our productive hours to deal with your alerts. Go back to the concepts that brought all us devs here, and convinced you (Microsoft) to buy GitHub in the first place. |
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Well, the feed was made so we could find repositories which we want to, like I made so many discord bots, so GitHub takes data from what kind of threads I am joined in, what kind of repositories I make and what I title them, what tags I add in them and also what kind of other repositories have similar title, tags and code files in them, GitHub takes all of it and gives us the feed But to be honest, this feed system is always boring, it doesn't have variety like YouTube. |
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The problem is that's only one thing it was made to do. It was probably also made to track your interest in the hopes that GitHub would eventually be able to sell you to the highest bidder. Whatever repository promoter has the most money is who you'd see the most. They are probably trying to break into the incredibly lucrative and unethical business of being an ad broker. Also, it wouldn't be that bad if we could just avoid it. But we can't. Not even if you wanted to. You have to go out of your way to get even close. To quote you
Correct. And it always will be. There is literally no possible future where Github is still useful AND the feed is also filled with a velocity and variety that could feed our interest. There is no hope for the feed. It is a lost cause. It is worse than worthless. It is actively reducing the value of this site. This is a productivity website. Social media sites are quite explicitly, by design, productivity blockers. If the feed is ever good, it means that Github is no longer useful. |
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Is Github going to sell my data?
Github is a productivity website, not a social media website. Those two types of websites have nearly antithetical goals and intentions to one another. You CANNOT be both.
Github is trying to integrate more features that are ONLY relevant to social media sites.
The logical conclusion is that it is trying to forgo it's usefulness in favor of being
wastefulentertaining.Moving forward, we can anticipate that they will actively sabotage our productivity if they think they'll make a buck off it.
Social sites sell your data
Social sites are all about getting you to stay on the site as long as possible so they can farm and sell as much data on you as possible.
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