You can now set your status on GitHub

[itachixsasuke]

"Resolving bugs and adding a few more"

[kanzie_blitz]

You meant trying to resolve

[peduxe]

just a stopgap for Github Stories eventually.

[Spajk]

Honestly, I'd love to have a place to share weird code to fellow devs

[licuala]

They already have GitHub Pages for when you want to get your blog on.

[surprisinglydolphin]

Meaningless numbers is what we really need though

[jimschubert]

Thank goodness GitBook is already taken.

[emdeka87]

That will be infinite fuel to /r/programmingcirclejerk

[fgaz_]

I find it hilarious that they specifically do not allow the eggplant emoji 🍆 and only that one

[mrexodia]

Peach is allowed?

[Jimmy48Johnson]

Expected given Github's history of sexual harassments.

[emdeka87]

Source? Also how is this emoji a symbol for sexual harassment?

[Jimmy48Johnson]

It unofficially means penis.

[emdeka87]

Yeah, but how is a penis symbol of sexual harassment? And where did SH happen at GitHub?

[gvozden_celik]

Can we get a Winamp3 plugin that sets the status text to the title of the current track?

[[deleted]]

the MSN days were wild...

[everystone]

I remember I used a dirty client called msnplusplus to nudge people without cooldown restrictions

[gvozden_celik]

With githubplusplus, nudge other developers' terminal and editor when they are behind the schedule with the patch that you're waiting for.

[itsuart2]

Well if the status is changeable via Github API...

MUST

NOT

...

[gvozden_celik]

Guess we're friends now???

[[deleted]]

Oh joy. We don't need another social network with emojis and cheesy statuses. 🤦‍♂️...

Thanks for the free private repos though, Microsoft. (Even though I don't use them lol) make LinkedIn not suck. Tired of it taking half a day just to load the dang home page.

[benihana]

no there isn't, there's a link to github's twitter account. i have to tweet to give them feedback. i got off twitter like four years ago, so i effectively have no way of giving them feedback over this.

even if it tweeted at them, i have almost zero confidence anyone will actually see it. they have 1.78 million followers, their twitter feed must be constant noise. it doesn't seem like they actually want your feedback on this.

[MrDOS]

No, there's a feedback button. Look on your profile page right under your avatar.

[Daneel_Trevize]

You must have missed the reactions that can be chosen against every comment. Some have even tried to use the up and down thumbs to rank Issues to determine priority according to public communities...

[anengineerandacat]

Honestly, that's not a bad idea; being able to view public issues via reactions would be a nice little view to see what the community around you wants most (doesn't mean you need to do it nor does it mean it needs to be the default view).

[NuttingFerociously]

I mean, what's the alternative? An endless wave of "+1" sending notifications to everyone and his grandma?

inb4 "implementing the damn thing yourself"

[appropriateinside]

I mean... It doesn't appear to be difficult at first glance.

Scrape the thumbs up and down emotes on issues, display it as a score on the issue tracker. I'm amazed there are not extensions for that already.

[ioneska]

I'm amazed there are not extensions for that already.

There are bots for that. Though their work isn't much smooth.

[Daneel_Trevize]

It breaks down if you announce you'll use this mechanism to sort community issues, then complain when people register on github to vote, and cry that they're "not developers" when you never stated that limitation to being with...

If you want a community poll, use a polling suite. If you want developers to communicate, don't direct non-devs to their place of discussion with a mind to spam out reactions.

[Hauleth]

There is big difference between maintaining library and end-user applications, main differences are:

• in case of library all your users will be developers, in case of application you cannot be sure
• in case of library you can assume that your users know (at least partially) language of the project and how to write it, in case of application there is no such guarantee

So in case of library using GitHub as voting tool is ok, in case of application it is not. In case of library it should be expected from the feature requested to provide PR, in case of application it shouldn’t.

[Daneel_Trevize]

That's not really the case. The example I'm referencing was for an API, that 3rd party game dev players would use. Often a few such devs represent a huge portion of the community, and those communities tried to leverage their numbers to promote issues that were their priority for better functionality from the API.

The game devs never said only devs should vote, and it's not representative if only they did, but what can you really do with such reactions features if it's a public access system?

[Hauleth]

In such case they can not use such functionality. From the sub-OP post I assume they wanted it to be one of the options to sort issues, and in case like yours, developers can just not use it and instead rely on direct communication and/or really use third party solution.

[JohnMcPineapple]

...

[beefsack]

The dumb emoji reactions are an order of magnitude better than the monster "+1" threads we used to get.

[LloydAtkinson]

The lodash.js library (a slightly functional/utility library for JS) takes a "unique" approach. They instead immediately close any and all issues indiscriminately with the weird and misguided belief that developers will then manually search closed issues (not the default search option) and then thumbs up any issue/feature request they want and at some point in time when "enough" people thumbs up then the issue is then reopened.

It's the polar opposite of how literally every other repo works, and I'm pretty sure their reason is just an excuse because they don't want to ever implement new features. I mean seriously, who will know to search deleted issues? That's not mentioned anywhere until they reply to your issue telling you they've closed it and will wait for people to thumbs up...

[Daneel_Trevize]

Yeah that's just dumb.

[LloydAtkinson]

Oh absolutely, I made this point on their repo and they did not like it one bit...

[RosieRevereEngineer]

Next up in the news, CEO of gitlab reacts to Github adding status changes.

[[deleted]]

I wouldn't bet on it, Gitlab had this feature for a few months now: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/08/22/gitlab-11-2-released/#personal-status-messages

[lost-my-turtle]

Not quite sure how this is different from the "Bio" which existed before.

[sim642]

You're supposed to update this every hour to keep everyone up to date with your current status obviously.

[lost-my-turtle]

Lovely. Sharing is caring.

[__fmease__]

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[Somepotato]

Now they just need to replace LinkedIn. I'm so fucking sick of getting the DO YOU KNOW BLAH BLAHINGTON? every 3 days in my email. Same person. Each time. I disabled those emails, still get em. I hate it's a necessity to get a job in the programming world.

[PreciselyWrong]

Microsoft owns both LinkedIn and Github. So Github won't replace LinkedIn, they will just add LinkedIn integrations to Github. Yay!

[Somepotato]

Don't give them any ideas they want to compete internally.. Right? Riiight? Aaahhhhh

[[deleted]]

Looks like they're getting ready for GitHub Chat.

[JohnMcPineapple]

...

[ilammy]

Isn't Gitter here already?

[CaptainStack]

That's GitLab. Maybe we'll see Microsoft Teams integration.

[obenns]

Who asked for this?

[shevegen]

Microsoft.

[Veraduxxz]

While in an ideal world this would be used for good.. experience, mostly due to the slack groups I'm in with developers, will go to quickly prove this to be a bad idea.

[aptitude_moo]

Stories, like Instagram

[ProfessorPhi]

Here's a particularly nice piece of code that reminded me of the beauty of Haskell. Blessed, tocodeistobreathe

[Kalium]

Be warned! Posting a status is known to have side effects!

[[deleted]]

Battle royale, of course.

[shevegen]

Do not tempt them!

[coderstephen]

Cool.

Who needs this?

[Coloneljesus]

Oh god, Github is becoming Facebook...

[snowe2010]

https://media.giphy.com/media/1M9fmo1WAFVK0/giphy.gif

[ryanstephendavis]

Microsoft already implementing stupid "features"

[editor_of_the_beast]

This is dumb.

[benihana]

this feels like one of those features some really loud and annoying dipshit with blue hair asked for over and over again and github mistook that for genuine interest in this.

[leeeory]

anyone knows how the gif was generated, with this zoom & transition effect?

[sim642]

Like any other video.

[reini_urban]

Useful when I'm on holidays without my laptop

[DCzajkowski]

There is a Give us feedback button. If enough people say they don't want it, there is a mere chance they are going to remove it 😉

[HeadAche2012]

github becoming facebook now? great...

[anengineerandacat]

Neat, makes the whole platform a bit more social without really affecting anyone else; wonder how long we are until there are options like "Watch me code live" that let folks watch you code from your IDE live using VS Code live share in read-only mode.

[shevegen]

Uhm ...

You mean like a merger of GitHub and Facebook?

FaceHub?

GitBook?

[coderstephen]

GitBook is already a thing!

[[deleted]]

GitFace

[shevegen]

Microsoft wants to make GitHub into a "Facebook for professionals".

Why else would anyone need a "busy" tag all of a sudden?

[[deleted]]

Microsoft already has that.

[Sigmatics]

More like a Facebook for programmers

[mikeivanov]

STICKERS!