[jordigh]

This is one thing that bugs me a lot about how centralised Github becomes: if you want any changes, you have to resort to begging with blog posts.

[sauravt]

How else would you want it to be ?

[jordigh]

Allow me to actually change this in the code. I don't really get github. They hold everyone's code and encourage everyone to share code, but they don't share their own.

This is why I left bitbucket:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/3054/make-bitbucket-...

[opendais]

Have you tried https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce/ ?

[jordigh]

Can I host my own gitlab instance and tell github users to pull from my gitlab instance? And can they do it with the usual interface that they use for closing github pull requests?

[opendais]

Ah, ya, you aren't going to be able to use Github's users on a Gitlab instance. It is like hosting your own copy of a Github-clone, basically. :/

You could write API integration between the two yourself but it wouldn't be that similar.

[jordigh]

Imagine if we had to beg Google to fix Gmail if we wanted to email people our own way. :-(

[fenollp]

GitHub could put up a voting user-oriented website much like the now discontinued Ubuntu Brainstorm.

I have plenty of ideas for them…

* allow symlinks in the gh-pages branch

* do not `chmod u+x` every text file in zip archives

* actually support `git-archive`

* make rebasing of PRs easier

* look for a contributor's code in a repo

* when looking at a file, have a link showing current PRs editing it

[jordigh]

My problem with it isn't the medium for the begging, but that it has to be done by begging instead of doing.

[electrum]

Symlinks work for gh-pages. We use it for linking to the current version of the docs:

https://github.com/facebook/presto/tree/gh-pages/docs

http://prestodb.io/docs/current/

[fenollp]

Hey electrum, There is a discussion on this matter over [1]. Other people and I still cannot get symlinks to work on gh-pages. Do you have any idea why that is? It could be because of a free vs. business GitHub account…

Cheers

[1]: https://github.com/Sidnicious/gh-pages-symlink-test/issues/4

[patcon]

A public issue queue for github? :)

This will do for now: https://github.com/isaacs/github

[HarshaThota]

Saw this in another thread on HN today: https://github.com/github-issues/github-issues. Similar goal as Isaac's repo.

[steveklabnik]

Holman has one too: https://github.com/holman/feedback

[VaedaStrike]

when you can do individualized filters that'd be nice. I mean if the underlying data/format isn't touched, but you you can tweek how you consume stuff, that'd be nice.

[erikano]

And easy switching between filters. "Their default view", "your default view" etc.