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by anarticle
1478 days ago
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I think you are riding a horse that is driven by a cart :D. Rather than looking at github from the perspective of hiring managers, look at it from the perspective of users. If the feature does not seem to serve them, it might not be a good one. If github is a tool, then the words hiring manager probably shouldn't appear. I don't think of "what will my product person think?" when I use grep. Also, didn't we do this when the award was tshirts for commits to open source projects where it unleashed a firestorm of junk edits to projects? If SNR gets low enough, people will migrate. I know some people have left github for gitlab, and are having a whale of a time with their runners etc. Replacing junky old jenkins installs for in the fence CICD. |
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It sounds like your perspective is that users don't get any value out of social media?
Why do people post photos to Instagram? Why post updates to Facebook?
You can take photos for your own benefit (like writing code for some non-GitHub-related benefit, e.g. work) and also share them on social media for your own gratification. You can live life for the fun of it and also share it on social media for your own gratification. (leave aside that social media is net-toxic, it's still worth it to understand the motivations of those who engage with social media).
Don't want to engage with the social media aspects of GitHub that they're adding (because social media is net-toxic)? Fine. Disable the achievements. They (smartly) built in that disable switch. But don't presume that there isn't a large portion of GitHub's userbase that won't get value out of this.