[jimminy]

I do find it a little odd all the comments in this thread are focusing on it as though it was a straight telemetry/metric decision.

From the update, this feels more like it was problem area for maintenance purposes, then had its telemetry assessed for decision.

"The data pipeline that powers the page has historically proven problematic to maintain and so given the low usage, we decided to switch off the Trending page."

The maintainers likely considered the resources and effort in maintaining it were too high. When they looked at the telemetry and saw it wasn't utilized considerably, they assessed it was better to cut it, than keep it or create an alternative.

If it didn't have a cost associated with it, it would likely have never become a target.

[skywhopper]

My read of that line is, “the person who built this feature left, no team owns it, it needs a full rewrite, but we have other priorities”. It’s not surprising the metrics show the page usage isn’t growing. GitHub’s current UI doesn’t really direct anyone to it. What their metrics don’t show them is how important the page is to the users who do use it, and how important those users are. But it seems they have found out.

[dunno7456]

Since Microsoft acquisition GitHub quality seems in decline, constant outages, git pushes that doesn't goes through while status page is green and now the attempt to remove trending page...

Is it the end of the original GitHub's spirit as a social coding?

[tr1ll10nb1ll]

Not sure what you mean by "quality is in decline".

I'm pretty happy (much like others) with GitHub now more than ever. Github has been releasing new features left and right.

Some of them are an unwelcome sight (think Github Badges) while others (think Github Issues) are a super productive enhancement imo.

[bluehatbrit]

Honestly, I don't really see it. GitHub's availability has never been great and it doesn't really seem worse now aside from having more features to go wrong.

I haven't seen much change at all since the acquisition personally. Probably the only thing I can pick out is their dropping of Atom in favour of vscode.

What have you specifically seen change since the MS acquisition that's likely from MS and not just GitHub?

[dyml]

I don’t agree with this statement. Im happy to see the innovation that have come out from GitHub in the last years.

What im really missing and hoping for is an even more open and extensible community platform. Discussions is a good start, it would love to more innovation there.