GitHub Social Role Debate

Discussions center on GitHub's evolution from a social coding platform to a developer social network, with debates over its features, user treatment, criticisms, and comparisons to social media.

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atmosx Dec 15, 2013 View on HN

Why do they need to act like if the know github? What's important about github outside the dev community????

geofft Jun 19, 2015 View on HN

I thought GitHub was about social coding.

jenscow Mar 8, 2016 View on HN

Not really. Imagine the backlash github would receive here.

raffraffraff Apr 20, 2022 View on HN

GitHub don't seem to be getting near enough flak in this thread.

DiabloD3 Mar 13, 2012 View on HN

Let no one say Github doesn't take care of their users. :D

assbuttbuttass Jul 17, 2024 View on HN

People treat Github like social media

jazzyjackson Jan 3, 2025 View on HN

GitHub is more like a public cemetery

atrain34 Jan 31, 2011 View on HN

i always thought github.com was 'social' enough.

sotojuan May 19, 2016 View on HN

Never thought of this use case! Sounds like GitHub did the right thing.

raldi Mar 6, 2015 View on HN

You don't think github is all that and more?