C’mon, cut these folks some slack — GitHub is huge, and one annoying adjacent feature doesn’t give you the right to attack these folks like this.
> Just get the stupid dedupping done, for God's sake.
> You have no excuse to so badly that a teenager can beat you by simple handcrafted rules.
> First learn and do the basics and then come here to talk about your need for ML.
> No one needs to suffer like this.
Let’s see, the OP belittles the original authors for something they’re not responsible for, implies that they’re incompetent, tells them to go away until their problem is fixed, and, oh, for god measure: invokes a deity.
This is not “straight forward feedback” to me.
How about we just cut all the insults and shift the tone a bit:
> GitHub has a really poor search experience compared with most modern web services. Search doesn't need fancy ML or DL, and dedupping alone would help a ton. A simple TF-IDF similarity metric would make GitHub’s search 10,000% better. You even know forks, names of files, folders, number of stars.
> PS: Sorry, I had to get this out. I've spent better part of my productivity in past two years shifting through page number 50 and 100 of undedupped results that GitHub returns and it’s been extremely frustrating.
See how this doesn’t blame the authors for something that isn’t their fault? Doesn’t imply they’re stupid or incompetent for some other feature they have nothing to do with? Doesn’t tell them to go away? And a bonus: It presents some approaches to solve a problem the author is frustrated by.
My experience ranting on the internet is that personal attacks don’t lead to feature improvements.
I think the pointed out asymmetry was spot on.