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Show HN: Git News – Social News website for developers and GitHub fans
- gajus 6y agoCheck out what I was doing with http://gitspo.com/ http://gitspo.com/. Might give some inspiration. It is an aggregator of all mentions of open-source projects.
- stanislavb 6y agoThat's interesting, I've built a similar service, too - https://www.libhunt.com https://www.libhunt.com. You can see all the trending repos that people are sharing on HackerNews and Reddit. Also, if you click on any of the repos, you can see the exact mentions + alternatives.
- 0x008 6y agohttps://git.news https://git.news
- nimit95 6y agoNo involvement of the community
- 0x008 6y agoYou mean the site has a comment feature? I was more referring to the naming. Also why do I get down-voted for naming other similar sites? To me that is a relevant piece of information.
- petercooper 6y agoI agree. Also, that site is clearly influenced by the "community" because it's based on what repos are trending! :-)
- nimit95 6y agoYeah, I meant the commenting :) Naming is coincidentally similar :P
- pininja 6y agoNeat site. Thanks for sharing! There’s an endless list of cool ideas being worked on. Searching through it all can be done in so many ways.
- nimit95 6y agoThanks.
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- PudgePacket 6y agoIs it also a repo we can pull for updates?
- nimit95 6y agoNot yet.
- RMPR 6y agoSeems like the responsiveness needs to be worked on a bit more[0]. Otherwise very cool project, I kinda like the color used for the dark theme. 0: https://imgur.com/a/uUemQQd https://imgur.com/a/uUemQQd
- nimit95 6y agoThanks. Makes sense, didn't test for long title, limit the heading in mobile?
- FrontAid 6y agoI'd recommend not doing that as it makes the UX on mobile worse and has a bad influence on SEO. Instead, I usually do something like that: h1::first-line {font-size:2rem;} h1 {font-size:1.5rem;} It will show the first line of a heading in a larger and all further lines in a smaller font size. Additionally, you could hyphenate headings. edit: And fluid typography might be something to look into. Currently, you seem to have a single breakpoint where font size is adapted. That does not work well on larger phones.
- nimit95 6y agoDid not think though responsiveness a lot. Is kind of MVP. Though have made some tweaks for mobile view now.
- nimit95 6y agoFixed by fixing the length for now.
- onion2k 6y agoI quite admire anyone who's willing to take on the challenge of creating a website with user generated content these days. That is a box even Pandora would hesitate to open. Also, it seems a bit odd that a site that claims to be for 'GitHub fans' doesn't use Github's OAuth provider for account creation...
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- nimit95 6y agoThanks a lot. I was planning to add Github's OAuth today.
- hanniabu 6y agoFor the "visit project" link, it messes up the format on mobile. I'd suggest just using the icon and dropping the text on small screens, and possibly moving it from the bottom of the card to the top right.
- bergstromm466 6y ago> a bit odd that a site that claims to be for 'GitHub fans' doesn't use Github's OAuth provider for account creation I think the idea of an MVP is to create something that works, not something with all the bells and whistles
- onion2k 6y agoIf the idea is to make an MVP then GitHub auth would have been less work. Creating a registration and login system is far more work than implementing a basic OAuth flow, especially if you can use something like Auth0.
- bergstromm466 6y ago> Creating a registration and login system is far more work than implementing a basic OAuth flow If you're using Rails it's just one gem and some bootstrap signup forms. I guess it also depends on the experience and skills of the developer.
- dejj 6y agoThere’s so much space for icons and borders, you had to abbreviate the titles even (viewed on mobile device). I prefer HN’s style.
- nimit95 6y agoHave made some tweaks. You like it better?
- dejj 6y agoBetter :) I see 3-4 items per page now. More is better. Don’t really care about stars or forkcount. “Visit page” has a linebreak when the dev’s name is longer. And there’s a column of white background on the right into which layout is overflowing (Firefox on iOS)
- stanislavb 6y agobtw, the project I've mentioned bellow (LibHunt) is HN's style. I've built it with HN usability in mind (plain, simple, easy).
- joshxyz 6y agoMy fat fingers wish HN has more space around each HTML element lol
- CivBase 6y agoAfter toying round with the CSS for a couple minutes, I was very happy with these two simple style changes: .chakra-button { height: 1.25rem; } .chakra-heading { font-size: 1rem; }
- thetanil 6y agomiddle click broken and the sizing on the desktop is for blind people
- thetanil 6y agonevermind, the contents of the primary links are completely uninteresting anyway
- GordonS 6y agoI really like the idea of this, both as a means to discover new projects, and to learn more about plans/roadmaps/updates for projects I already know about. A couple of suggestions, if I may: - Tags: assuming the amount of content grows, it's going to be difficult to sort things that interest me from things that don't. Tags (like StackOverflow uses them) would let me filter to languages/concepts that interest me - RSS feed: I consume a lot of blogs using RSS, and it would be my preferred method for a news site like this too. Ideally it would work with the tags feature above
- stanislavb 6y agoI like the idea of adding RSS support (to LibHunt); however, what do you imagine being syndicated in a topic? All recently mentioned projects? Edit: OK, I will add RSS support per programming language. So every time a new projects gets into the top mentioned projects it will be syndicated.
- nimit95 6y agoThanks. Yeah I like the RSS idea it is on my roadmap. By tags you mean the github tags rights? Or people can add the tags themselves ?
- GordonS 6y agoI was thinking that users would be able to add tags to each post, from a curated list of tags (StackOverflow-style), but if it's a GitHub project being posted, it would be useful to default to any tags that project has (Still allowing the user to change them tho)
- asjo 6y agoIs it for git fans or Microsoft GitHub fans? I know there might not be a distinction for a lot of people, but the name and the headline makes it ambiguous, at least to me. Maybe add an "About" page outlining what it's meant for? Most of the headlines I see right now aren't about git, which is what I would guess something called "Git News" was :-) Good luck!
- nimit95 6y agoYeah I know. :P Plan to extend to gitlab, bitbucket as well :)
- ddevault 6y agoAnd sourcehut! https://sr.ht/projects https://sr.ht/projects
- tovej 6y agoI concur. I also wouldn't consider the idea of online social repo systems to be synonymous with git. Git is a source control tool, "Git news" would suggest to me either news about the development of git or a news platform somehow operated through git. This next opinion might be more controversial, but I think it needs to be said: the conflation of git with github is exactly what Microsoft wants because it leads young developers towards github and a sleak online experience. This hurts the open source ecosystem by creating a single stop shop with little competition. And it might not be easy to switch to other alternatives because of lockin due to external features like issues and wiki, inertia, etc. Calling this site "Git News" is a small part of this development, and that is imo unfortunate.
- MichaelMoser123 6y agoi follow almost everyone who puts a like on my stuff on github; then every project they like appears on my github timeline in return. I see a lot of cool stuff, but frankly, I don't have the time to follow up on all these leads. there is so much fragmentation in the oss world (speaking as someone who worked in different domains and programming languages) It's as if there are different tribes who all live in their very own bubble.
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- spookyuser 6y agoI love this idea and also the way it's designed, it still feels like a kind of brutalism, but just a touch more modern. I don't really know how to explain it but something about the design appeals very much to me!
- uptownhr 6y agoPlease implement github sso. Lot of people are on mobile and hate filling out even a single input field.
- nimit95 6y agoYes implementing it shortly!
- CivBase 6y agoI definitely suggest adding a guidelines page, like you'd find on HN[0] and subreddits. Without one, it's not entirely clear to me what this site is for other than git. And if this takes off, you'll want some rules to fall back on when moderating posts and comments. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nimit95 6y agoGuidelines page is up now :)
- sixbrx 6y agoAdvice (take it or leave it): I think the item titles should be real hyperlinks (not js actions), so when right clicking the user gets the option to open in new tab.
- TheLML 6y agoI usually open links in new tabs while browsing a site. Especially an aggregator site like HN, reddit or gitnews. I always use the mouse wheel to open them. When a site doesn't allow that I already feel a lot less inclined to use it.
- boogies 6y agoSame (except I often use shift+f in Pentadactyl or three fingers on trackpads, and middle click emulation when pressing both buttons is an option on two-button rats).
- randomchars 6y ago+1 on this. To the author: It looks like your site is using next.js. You can use the `Link` component for this purpose: https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/link https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/link
- nimit95 6y agoOkay will include this.
- nimit95 6y agoThis is fixed. Thanks for the input :)
- ar-nelson 6y agoA link aggregator that only accepts GitHub links is a great idea, though I agree with other posters that it would help to add support for other Git hosts. Feature request: comment replies. As far as I can tell, comments don't allow replies, which makes it more-or-less impossible to have any kind of conversation about a comment.
- swilliamsio 6y agoIt's a good start. I shall watch this space with great interest.
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- vemv 6y agoHeads up - generally "Git" cannot form part of a product name. https://git-scm.com/about/trademark https://git-scm.com/about/trademark (GitHub and others were accepted for historical reasons)
- nimit95 6y agoWill dig into this. Thanks for the heads up.
- knoebber 6y agoI love the color theme! Nice job. One bit of feedback: the upvote and downvote buttons felt laggy to me. The on hover effect doesn't always activate, and after I click it, I don't get any immediate feedback that it worked. I'm on a satellite internet connection with a lot of latency, so I'm assuming I'm waiting for network requests to finish. macOS / FireFox 84.0.2 (64-bit)
- pokstad 6y agoHmmm, kind of misleading name. This isn't "git" news. It's miscellaneous software projects. If you want actual git news, checkout https://git.github.io/rev_news/ https://git.github.io/rev_news/
- ExcavateGrandMa 6y agololz you need JS to handle a click on a link? Awful :D