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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Why do they need to act like if the know github? What's important about github outside the dev community????
I thought GitHub was about social coding.
Not really. Imagine the backlash github would receive here.
GitHub don't seem to be getting near enough flak in this thread.
Let no one say Github doesn't take care of their users. :D
People treat Github like social media
GitHub is more like a public cemetery
i always thought github.com was 'social' enough.
Never thought of this use case! Sounds like GitHub did the right thing.
You don't think github is all that and more?