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There’s an unfortunate productization that happens when you put some code publicly on GitHub. There seems to be a culture that you should make the repo look attractive even if it’s just some off the cuff experiment no-one ever tried to run in production.

I’m certainly not against doing your work in public if that works for you, but I wish GitHub were better at encouraging people to label their half finished experiments as half finished experiments.

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I would guess that the substantial majority of repositories on github have had zero effort put into making them look presentable. The thing is that you don't normally see any of them because you don't spend your time on github looking for half-finished experiments that no one uses. Open a prolific user's profile and scroll down to the bottom of their repository list and you'll often see a bunch of completely unpolished things, though.

There's this: http://unmaintained.tech/

Thank you for linking this, definitely going to use it.

There’s also the Archive Repository feature, which can help: https://help.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...

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