While things can always be better the Github UX is good enough here. I am reminded of an old phrase:
“A bad workman always blames his tools.”
At some point you just need to accept responsibility for your actions and stop blaming others.
It is a workman, who builds a very succesful tool for others. Not a bad workman by my definition.
And his suggestions of improving the UI sound very solid. Also I am not sure, if you got the part, where he pointed out, that Github themself made the same misstake for one if their repos. Sure, sure, all bad workman.
Regardless, to make mistakes is human. What I don't really like is how the author starts attacking Github and Microsoft, just because they can't afford to fix the author's mistake. A huge red flag for me.
My advice is for Github to tell you that you’re losing 53,000 stars (not just “all your stars”) to help knock you out of autopilot.
I don’t get the finger pointing though. Obviously they messed up, it’s the entire post. But it’s also a good moment to reflect on how UX can be used to prevent people from messing up.
Unless you set the threshold to 1, in which case it's just more meaningless noise, like the repository name (apparently) is.
That's a meaningless statement, though, as it can always be used against anyone complaining about something. I mean, you yourself wrote this the other day:
> I had to work with SAP Hybris a year or two ago. My IDE was not smart enough. Well actually I spent a good number of days trying to configure my IDE to be able to work properly with Hybris. I failed. What a mess
Are you a bad workman blaming your tools? Or do some tools just genuinely have faults?
When Lauda Air Flight 004 crashed because the pilots accidentally deployed the reverse thrusters in air, even though it was the pilot who "made a mistake", Boeing was forced to change their design and now the original design is considered flawed.