[lourot]

OP here. The idea came because on your GitHub profile:

- I can't see all your code contributions since the beginning of time at a glance.

- For each of your pinned repos, I can't tell at the first glance whether you just fixed a typo or you wrote 90% of it.

ghuser.io tries to close this gap. You can show off with your entire GitHub "portfolio" and it gets refreshed every day.

And hopefully this is temporary. The best for the community would be to have all this directly on GitHub. The sooner ghuser.io can be switched off, the better ;)

[lourot]

This is already more popular than I thought, the queue of profile requests (and AWS SQS) contains already more than 10 users, at this point any new user user coming will have the sensation that nothing happens when they want to get a profile.

I didn't expect to reach this point so fast (thanks!). I'll work on improving this right after this wave of new users. For now, just making sure that you all get your profile.

[franciscop]

Expect 10-20k visits if it rides the front page of HN, with anywhere between 100-2000 users creating their profile.

[gadgetoid]

Just requested mine! I'm not ready to abandon GitHub just yet- I use it for the "Hub", not the "Git" and this sort of change is just the kind of thing I'd like to see more of- let's hope some of these ideas get integrated into GitHub itself.

I'm still optimistic that Microsoft will be keen to make some quality-of-life improvements when they take the wheel, as a show of good faith.

[lourot]

We had a chat with the "profile team" at GitHub recently and they are doing a great job as we speak at improving the GitHub profiles :)

[rmetzler]

I'm the guy fixing the typos in everybody's README :)

[lourot]

Hehe :) And this is really useful, I hope my message didn't make it sound like the opposite. (Unfortunately our readme is probably full of typos!)

[michaelmior]

Don't you tire of it after a while? I still do it from time to time but I've started to feel apathetic after seeing so many READMEs just put together as an afterthought.

[TomK32]

damn it, you've been quicker at it, again...

[franciscop]

Hi OP, seems nice but "Get my profile" seems to attempt to load but never gets done. Github username: franciscop. Slashdot effect? My profile is weird? Been coding for ~8 years OSS in Github and I've got a quite public profile [1], so I might have quite a bit of data there.

[1] http://git-awards.com/users/franciscop

[lourot]

indeed, you're hitting what I just described in my other comment. Sorry about that, I really didn't think it would happen this fast (it's not the first time I post this on a forum).

Taking a few minutes now to display a temporary message that we're a bit overloaded.

[MrQuincle]

This is a different type of forum: you're experiencing kind of a "hug of death". Be proud and move fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

[TomK32]

Thanks, my gh profile has become utterly useless due to overload.