Ghit.me
Dev tools
repository badges
SHOW HN2015
7points
5comments
#2,295of 2,565 in 2015
Top 90%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Performance: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
Objections
Hit counters are outdated and GitHub already shows more meaningful metrics
From 1 comment
...but why? I guess hit counters were cool in 1993 but Github has much more meaningful data there on display already: forks, stars, PRs, etc. Not sure how hit counters help?
tomcam on HN
Questions
Does the badge work given GitHub camo image caching
From 2 comments
Does it really work? Because…
fiatjaf on HNI guess refreshing the above link repeatedly answers the question: the images are not cached, just proxied through camo.githubusercontent.com.
fiatjaf on HN
Why build hit counters for GitHub
From 1 comment
...but why? I guess hit counters were cool in 1993 but Github has much more meaningful data there on display already: forks, stars, PRs, etc. Not sure how hit counters help?
tomcam on HN