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GitHub Discussion about the recent feed changes becomes 3rd most upvoted ever

by beeman on 9/11/23, 5:08 PM with 39 comments

The discussion [0] about the recent changes has been upvoted by so many developers, that it's currently the 3rd most upvoted discussion on the platform [1].

I've been talking about it on Twitter [2] and tried to ping a few people I know who work at GitHub, but to no avail - there has been total silence since they made the change 5 days ago.

Is there someone here on HN who can bring this to the attention of the right people? Even though I understand it's a corporation, I can't imagine nobody cares about so many developers being unhappy.

The ask is pretty simple: leave the old chronological feed [3] as an option.

0: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188

1: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop

2: https://twitter.com/beeman_nl/status/1701278872858178005

3: https://github.com/dashboard-feed

  • by Animats on 9/11/23, 6:14 PM

    Github has a social media feed?

    I'm not seeing any of that. I look at files on Github. I search code. I push commits to Github. I create issues. I look at issues. I look at project pages. I look at code. I search code. Git and Cargo talk to Github on my behalf.

    None of this shows me any social media stuff. If I start seeing "For You" on project pages, I'll switch to a new provider. I really hope Github doesn't pull a Facebook.

  • by chrsig on 9/11/23, 6:17 PM

    Given the text of that first post, it's no wonder why there's been silence. What do you even do with that?

    It gives no details about why whatever the new feature is bad, or what was good about the prior behavior. It's presumptive, antagonistic, and doesn't leave any room for discussion.

    It really seems like OP is hoping that dogpiling on the issue will bring about positive change.

  • by beeman on 9/11/23, 5:09 PM

  • by xonix on 9/11/23, 6:08 PM

    I've just turned off all the Feed filters to show empty feed. This way it's more useful, than with it's "new content". I've bookmarked the direct link to https://github.com/dashboard-feed, unfortunatelly on mobile the font is too small.

  • by marcinzm on 9/11/23, 6:13 PM

    I wonder if Microsoft hired a few too many laid off Meta and Twitter product people.

  • by dewey on 9/11/23, 6:31 PM

    > I can't imagine nobody cares about so many developers being unhappy.

    I use GitHub every day and I don't have a problem with this change, I also didn't really notice it.

    As usual with design changes, for the sub-set of loud people there's a massive chunk of people who don't care about it and might even like it.

  • by verdverm on 9/11/23, 5:53 PM

    Has GitHub responded? Are they staying the course or listening to the feedback they asked for?

  • by matt3210 on 9/11/23, 6:19 PM

    Use hub here via CLI and forget the gui https://hub.github.com/

  • by jmclnx on 9/11/23, 6:23 PM

    I no longer care about GitHub anymore. Since I am being forced to use 2FA starting Oct 12, I moved my repositories elsewhere. The methods they are forcing us to use are ones I am unable to use or will not use (in the case of Cell Phones).

    For me, this was the straw that "broke the Camels back".

  • by ChrisArchitect on 9/11/23, 7:59 PM

    Tell HN:

  • by matt3210 on 9/11/23, 6:20 PM

    Microsoft has always told people what they want.