Only a matter of time before that gets weaponized. You don't need that much blah-blah-blah to tell people to keep to business and don't stray beyond purely technical matters related to a project.
I'm sorry, but why hasn't anyone boycotted GitHub yet? I saw this coming years ago just by observing their "hip and trendy" business behavior. They're a bunch of hipsters who prefer shininess over functionality -- and that says a lot.
This is almost like an exact repeat of what happened over on reddit/imgur. They get offended and use 'ethics' as an excuse to censor stuff they don't like while hypocritically letting all the other nasty behavior flourish because it doesn't affect them.
Remember when they took down that cplusequality programming language? It was nothing more than a harmless joke. Fuck them.
I'm sorry, but why hasn't anyone boycotted GitHub yet?
Network effects. Bitbucket actually has quite a few features Github lacks (e.g. ability to group together multiple related repos) and is, IMO, generally better, but it still has a much lower market share because the value of the site is directly dependent on the number of projects using it, since you need to use it for PRs and non-hostile forks.
Ok, so I was certain that there was a feature where you could group together related repos as a single project, but I can't seem to find any indication that such a thing ever existed. It looks like they'll be adding that feature soon though, so I wasn't completely wrong.
It really sounds like you just want to be offended about something. If you don't like github don't use it. You can still clone projects from github while using a different service or hosting it yourself almost trivially.
I'm counting the days untill they start banning projects for using terms such as "master/slave" and advocate for less triggering language like "leader/follower". Watch it happen, they already did it to django. Quit your triggering use of language you programming shitlords!
Also... forking? Quit raping people you horribly opressive cishets!
And at my old university they also taught the travelling salesman problem as traveling salesperson problem in order not to opress poor special snowflakes... This is going to be fun to watch...
Well. This is a big pile of shit. How do people even survive in the wild? Seriously, how do they live when everything 'triggers' and is 'unsafe' for them? The world doesn't give a shit about them and their social values.
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20 u/Balrogic 22 Jul 2015 06:56
Only a matter of time before that gets weaponized. You don't need that much blah-blah-blah to tell people to keep to business and don't stray beyond purely technical matters related to a project.
1 u/Doxin 24 Jul 2015 18:41
this line in particular worries me:
I'll stick to the NCoC.
16 u/origin206 22 Jul 2015 08:02
I'm sorry, but why hasn't anyone boycotted GitHub yet? I saw this coming years ago just by observing their "hip and trendy" business behavior. They're a bunch of hipsters who prefer shininess over functionality -- and that says a lot.
This is almost like an exact repeat of what happened over on reddit/imgur. They get offended and use 'ethics' as an excuse to censor stuff they don't like while hypocritically letting all the other nasty behavior flourish because it doesn't affect them.
Remember when they took down that cplusequality programming language? It was nothing more than a harmless joke. Fuck them.
6 u/rdnetto 22 Jul 2015 09:34
Network effects. Bitbucket actually has quite a few features Github lacks (e.g. ability to group together multiple related repos) and is, IMO, generally better, but it still has a much lower market share because the value of the site is directly dependent on the number of projects using it, since you need to use it for PRs and non-hostile forks.
2 u/Grizmoblust 23 Jul 2015 01:04
Thanks for the recommendation. I will switch.
0 u/enlil 23 Jul 2015 05:59
GitLab is also something to look into. It has fewer restrictions also.
0 u/zeaus 24 Jul 2015 10:32
How do you group the repos? Can you give me more details on that as I am interested a lot in that.
0 u/rdnetto 26 Jul 2015 05:19
Ok, so I was certain that there was a feature where you could group together related repos as a single project, but I can't seem to find any indication that such a thing ever existed. It looks like they'll be adding that feature soon though, so I wasn't completely wrong.
1 u/cronenburger 22 Jul 2015 11:18
Why do you think no one has boycotted github yet?
It really sounds like you just want to be offended about something. If you don't like github don't use it. You can still clone projects from github while using a different service or hosting it yourself almost trivially.
1 u/enlil 23 Jul 2015 05:58
It's all a thin veil they use to market themselves. Their CEO fired someone for refusing to have sex with them.
9 u/king_of_voat 22 Jul 2015 14:41
I'm counting the days untill they start banning projects for using terms such as "master/slave" and advocate for less triggering language like "leader/follower". Watch it happen, they already did it to django. Quit your triggering use of language you programming shitlords!
Also... forking? Quit raping people you horribly opressive cishets! And at my old university they also taught the travelling salesman problem as traveling salesperson problem in order not to opress poor special snowflakes... This is going to be fun to watch...
4 u/OTL_ 22 Jul 2015 08:20
What language will it be written in?
3 u/Sylos 22 Jul 2015 17:15
Well. This is a big pile of shit. How do people even survive in the wild? Seriously, how do they live when everything 'triggers' and is 'unsafe' for them? The world doesn't give a shit about them and their social values.
2 u/turtle_comet 22 Jul 2015 06:00
Interesting idea, it'll be interesting to see how it goes for this stuff to be codified instead of just implicit.
2 u/dchem 22 Jul 2015 07:42
Urgh