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by mutewinter
5226 days ago
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I run a website that tracks watchers on GitHub projects, http://gitego.com. What I see is that it is incredibly rare for a project to lose watchers. It seems that people are using GitHub's watch feature as a bookmarking service. On a side note, GitEgo tracks two[1,2] of paulasmuth's GitHub repositories, and neither of them has "lost lost around 30 watchers by the evening." He may be referring to other projects on GitHub, but even Twitter Bootstrap[3] (the most popular GitHub project), almost never loses watchers. Granted, these projects could all be gaining just a few more watchers than they are losing per hour, but the net effect is almost always a gain each day. I think the real problem is that watching a repository doesn't engage a user in its contents. Watching commit messages fly by isn't as entertaining as reading 140 characters someone groomed for public consumption. [1]: http://gitego.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric#watchers?interval=b... [2]: http://gitego.com/paulasmuth/recommendify#watchers?interval=... [3]: http://gitego.com/twitter/bootstrap#watchers?interval=by_hou... |
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