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137points
106comments
#156of 2,565 in 2015
Top 7%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 41 critical, out of 71 comments about the project. Thread score -0.53.

Execution: 0 for, 27 againstIdea: 1 for, 8 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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

What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun and neat to play with

    From 3 comments
    • Great idea, and quite funny to use :)
      cblavier on HN
    • Awesome !!
      muddy on HN
    • This is really neat and I love playing with stuff like this. But, fundamentally, it shows that stars aren't a good measure of anything besides stars, at least outside of the top…
      luu on HN

Objections

  • Location detection is wrong (city and country mix-ups)

    From 6 comments
    • I don't think it takes into account the country, just the city. I live in Halifax, UK and it compared me with people in Halifax, Canada. Edit: Also, I have more than 1 star on my…
      LukeB_UK on HN
    • It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin https://github.com/kylecronin
      kylec on HN
    • The city search thing doesn't work right as far as I can tell. I live in Louisville, CO, but it was showing users from Louisville, KY.
      matthuggins on HN
    • according to this site, I'm the #1 developer in Mexico for a ton of languages. in reality, I'm not in Mexico. similar comments abound: "I live in Halifax, UK and it compared me…
      tessierashpool on HN
    • There's a bug with the city/country detection: People with only a country as their location, e.g. “Norway” are detected as being in “Norway, United States”. :-)
      ehamberg on HN
    • Why does it think Kentucky is in Australia? My profile: https://github.com/moneypenny
      cheshire137 on HN
  • Star counts are buggy and miss repos or include forks

    From 3 comments
    • Surprised to see that I'm only detected as having 34 "Ruby" stars when one of my Ruby projects has ~6,700 stars, all told across all my projects I ought to have closer to 10k ★.…
      codebeaker on HN
    • I am pretty surprised by my ranking in San Francisco :) 86 in Lua devs? not so many Lua devs around ... Also, it seems that some of my repo are not taking into account, like…
      picsoung on HN
    • This appears to be improperly including the stars from repositories that you forked.
      vkjv on HN
  • Stars are a poor measure of skill and gamification is harmful

    From 3 comments
    • I run most of my projects under an organization so this doesn't really work. Also stars aren't really a great measure of anything after a point. Perfect example are the json-jwt…
      lucisferre on HN
    • A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development. On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that…
      sfk on HN
    • This is really neat and I love playing with stuff like this. But, fundamentally, it shows that stars aren't a good measure of anything besides stars, at least outside of the top…
      luu on HN
  • Uses GitHub name and branding, violating GitHub's guidelines

    From 3 comments
    • I'd like to call out for the author of this that you are in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines: > ## Naming projects and products > Please avoid naming your…
      codebeaker on HN
    • The name still breaks the naming section of GitHub's terms. It doesn't matter if you put a disclaimer on it. Naming projects and products Please avoid naming your projects…
      LukeB_UK on HN
    • I wish GitHub would crack down harder on sites that do this. This site, and a lot of the other sites that use GitHub APIs and data are clearly trying to blur the boundary between…
      jlarocco on HN

Requests

  • Fix city and location detection

    From 2 comments
    • It told me it coudln't identify my city from my github account. Indeed, i did not have "location" field filled out in my github profile. I went and filled it out. But it still…
      jrochkind1 on HN
    • It didn't detect my location correctly. I'm in the Boston area, not the UK: http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=kylecronin https://github.com/kylecronin
      kylec on HN
  • Real-time updates

    From 1 comment
    • I don't think it's updated in realtime, is it?
      pravj on HN
  • Search by geographic radius

    From 1 comment
    • The cool thing is, of course, to find like-minded people locally! It would be nice to be able to see results by specifying a geographic radius.
      csl on HN

Questions

  • Is the score formula correct?

    From 1 comment
    • Is the score formula correct? sum(stars) + (1.0 - 1.0/count(repositories)) So if I have 3000 stars and 10 repositories, you give me a score of 3000.9? Shouldn't it be multiplied?
      jdjb on HN
  • How the data was gathered and how much it took

    From 1 comment
    • Thank you! I was almost doing this myself, but you did it first, now I'm free! How much did it take? Too much data? How much? How did you get it?
      fiatjaf on HN

Alternatives named

  • GitHub itself

    From 1 comment
    • I wish GitHub would crack down harder on sites that do this. This site, and a lot of the other sites that use GitHub APIs and data are clearly trying to blur the boundary between…
      jlarocco on HN
  • BitBucket

    From 1 comment
    • I wish GitHub would crack down harder on sites that do this. This site, and a lot of the other sites that use GitHub APIs and data are clearly trying to blur the boundary between…
      jlarocco on HN

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