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Drew DeVault | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5c91d587 github positions itself as a social network and a lot of its design decisions make more sense when you understand that (and are still awful)
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Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @822a3c32 On one hand I get that whole idea that everyone tries to build a social network for no good reason.

On the other, they also do sell a product to enterprise customers. Maybe they disable features like that in those enterprise editions?

I can not imagine people paying money for a development platform so that their employees can be distracted with some attention grabbing.

These should be the same enterprises which often try to block twitter and Co on a company firewall.
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1d44fcf4 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5c91d587 @822a3c32 One thing GitHub had going was the activity feed showing me things that helped me discover more code. Seeing someone I follow star another repo or make one of their own public was useful. 

That all changed with their new feed algorithm. It's now all irrelevant information.