Most of the prior projects I've seen that used public github data for anything along these lines suffer from the same flaw - Many coders' work is private. You can't see it to include in the system, so what you are really ranking is people's public code. And for many devs, that is their experiments, not their best work.
this is true. we could request private commit permissions but I was afraid that would scare people away from signing up. If there is demand for it we could enable it and it would certainly paint a more complete picture - with the obvious caveat that we'd need a large number of users to sign up and grant those permissions.
Idk if I'm just too cautious,
But the GitHub OAuth scope requests write access to public repositories including settings, webhooks, and deploy keys.
I wanna check my rank but that level of access is scary
The tastemaker score is the thing I didn't know I wanted. Follower counts have always felt like a lagging indicator — this is trying to measure something much harder and more interesting.
Most of the prior projects I've seen that used public github data for anything along these lines suffer from the same flaw - Many coders' work is private. You can't see it to include in the system, so what you are really ranking is people's public code. And for many devs, that is their experiments, not their best work.
this is true. we could request private commit permissions but I was afraid that would scare people away from signing up. If there is demand for it we could enable it and it would certainly paint a more complete picture - with the obvious caveat that we'd need a large number of users to sign up and grant those permissions.
Idk if I'm just too cautious, But the GitHub OAuth scope requests write access to public repositories including settings, webhooks, and deploy keys. I wanna check my rank but that level of access is scary
The tastemaker score is the thing I didn't know I wanted. Follower counts have always felt like a lagging indicator — this is trying to measure something much harder and more interesting.
This is an amazing page. I am lost in it, looking at the numbers - trending, most active, insights, etc. It's like candy (for some of us):-)
I really enjoyed building it as an analytics addict. The most difficult part was drawing a line for myself to call it finished and stop adding stuff.
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