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Quicker Way to check someone's github profile

Shown by salsakran on May 5, 2011. Click the card to turn it over.

83points

28comments

#139of 1,097 in 2011

Top 13%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.

Execution: 1 for, 8 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Simple and immediately useful
From 1 comment
- This is cool. Simple and immediately useful. I just realized I hadn't updated my personal info on github so I just added name, location, etc. How long does it take your system to…
  geuis on HN
Contributions page better than GitHub profile
From 1 comment
- Wow, finally a contributions page that isn't just prettified version of the GitHub profile! Great job :) Few notes: - there is no legend / description of scores in "Contribution…
  piotrSikora on HN

Contribution percentages are inaccurate
From 2 comments
- The "contribution" percentages are a little funny. They certainly aren't based on lines of code, or number of commits. How is that calculated? Feels weird when you own a project…
  yourcelf on HN
- It appears that it just hadn't finished acquiring the data for the profile. It grabbed a minor, outdated fork rather than the latest version. After some time, it's caught up to…
  yourcelf on HN
Site was down or unresponsive
From 2 comments
- Your site is currently unresponsive: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.gitalytics.com I look forward to seeing it when it's up!
  asymptotic on HN
- Mongodb crashed overnight. Guess it's not webscale or something. It's up and I'm trying to figure out what killed it.
  salsakran on HN
Wrong or incomplete data such as followers and PHP languages
From 3 comments
- Agree. And the number of followers for a given project appears to be wrong as well. http://www.github.com/aantix
  aantix on HN
- Not sure where it is getting PHP in my profile from - pretty sure I haven't done any PHP! Link here: http://www.gitalytics.com/user/detail/jamiepenney
  jpenney on HN
- Interesting: In my profile on the site, it says that I work mainly in c++. I don't know c++.
  pokoleo on HN
Unicode accented names crashed the server
From 1 comment
- Is it me or it does not accept accents? I tried 'André' and server got sad.
  andredieb on HN

Add sortable columns and percentage bars
From 1 comment
- Wow, finally a contributions page that isn't just prettified version of the GitHub profile! Great job :) Few notes: - there is no legend / description of scores in "Contribution…
  piotrSikora on HN
Add a legend describing scores
From 1 comment
- Wow, finally a contributions page that isn't just prettified version of the GitHub profile! Great job :) Few notes: - there is no legend / description of scores in "Contribution…
  piotrSikora on HN

How is the contribution percentage calculated?
From 1 comment
- The "contribution" percentages are a little funny. They certainly aren't based on lines of code, or number of commits. How is that calculated? Feels weird when you own a project…
  yourcelf on HN
Does it crawl commit logs or the GitHub API?
From 2 comments
- I'm impressed that it picked up my contributions for which I no longer have the forks in my profile. Is it actually crawling commit logs? Seems neat.
  tsigo on HN
- The initial search is pretty fast, are you going out to github api or do you have crawlers that get all the data all the time?
  codenerdz on HN