[CM30]

Wouldn't this just be more annoying than useful? I mean, finding random people on GitHub is maybe 0.5% of the times I use the new tab button. Why have that happen all the time? Just to show it's possible?

It's a novel idea, just have no idea why anyone would make or install an add on based on it.

[gedrap]

I guess it depends on how actually random it is.

Genuinely random? Well, yeah, that would be crap, assuming most of the github accounts have pretty much nothing public other than maybe a hello world or something equivalent.

Something recommended instead of actually random? That might be interesting, just maybe repositories other than users (in other profile you have to click on something to discover, while in repo just scroll for readme).

For example, I like the idea of Github explore newsletter, offered by Github. A few trending repositories every morning. Sometimes something useful, sometimes inspirational.

Unfortunately, it's not implemented well :( a lot of the repos are JS and couldn't find where to change the option, also I often get the same repos (e.g. I get this https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp pretty much every day for the past half a year).

[rev_bird]

>I get this https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp pretty much every day for the past half a year

This seems like a pretty perfect example of how outliers can make algorithms act funny -- Free Code Camp has more than 100,000 stars on GitHub. That's well over twice as many as Angular[1] and nine times as many as CoffeeScript[2]. I mean, it's still annoying, but I'd imagine they're collecting "+1"s faster than GitHub Explore can ignore them.

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular.js [2] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript

[ng12]

I use Panda -- a plugin that shows me a selection of pretty-looking websites when I new-tab. I'm not even a designer or anything, but it's nice for inspiration. I imagine this is going after the same angle.

[deckar01]

It reminds me of Chat Roulette. It's less useful than it is entertaining and perception altering.

[crypticlizard]

the discovery problem is a big deal for open source code. Not claiming this solves that, but like many great ideas, they can often look silly at first. And who knows, it could be the beginning of a cooler idea!

[Camillo]

Self-promotion, obviously.