Is the GitHub home page distracting you from your work?
As GitHub gets better at showing me interesting projects on the home page, I find myself being less and less productive. I visit github.com to get to the issue tracker or review a PR and 10 minutes later find myself browsing experimental open-source projects.
I suppose GitHub wants to drive "engagement", but is this an anti-feature?
For me, the real distraction is “hot questions” sidebar on Stack Exchange. I’d look up a programming question and end up sidetracked by math problems, Star Trek trivia, travel questions, world building prompts… I had to add a custom rule in uBlock Origin to block them.
I really never go to the GitHub home page. I’ve maybe been to GitHub.com five times in 15 years.
I go directly to projects and I find projects 95% through word of mouth, coworkers, friends, articles and 5% through GitHub search.
But my normal workflow is to go to work repos directly and do my job.
I never go to my “feed” page but it shows every once in a while after I do stuff like transfer repos and it’s just a bunch of meaningless noise.
I have a bookmark to a query showing me all the tickets waiting for my work.
This is distinct from https://github.com/issues/assigned which shows me every project, in that I filter for my work organization with user:.
I don't think I've ever looked at the GitHub homepage, I just sort of go directly to the project I want to look at (mine: URL completion, others: search results)
Having looked at it now I don't think there's anything there of use to me, just a bunch of release updates. I guess this is different if you have open source projects issues to triage
Just set up your bookmark to be pointing at github/your-repo instead of just github home page.
I skip that page. Maybe I don't follow enough repos to have some content that would attract me to it.
No, I only check it when I have some down time. It doesn't feel addictive or flashy in any way/
Hi, GitHub PM here! We're looking into revamping the home page and I'm curious what sort of information would it be most useful for you to have at your finger tips! You can also email me at siminapasat github.com if that's easier. Thank you :)
No, I just don't look at it.
I use the notifications page as my home page. Like maybe once a month when I'm bored I'll click through to the home page to see what's going on but I find it rarely useful.
You can use UBlock Origin's element blocker to remove the parts that you find distracting. It's super useful on many websites too.
Haha same here, I get distracted doing many different projects finishing none at the same time XD
Github has a home page? :-)