Github seems to be primarily focused on becoming a social network. That might be why it’s so popular for open source and individuals, but when I’m actually working, the extensive feature set of Gitlab is much more useful.
Also Gitlab CI is a Maybach, Github CI is a PT Cruiser.
I think I understand why people say this. However, I hardly ever see any of that so it just doesn’t matter to me / isn’t a problem for me.
One thing is their org structure is weak. They don’t allow sub-orgs or any organization. So if you have a big organization, it’s just chaos and their solution is to set up profiles and complex notifications.
There’s no way to just set up groups and watch those while also being part of an overall org.
I have 500 people and 250 projects in my org. It’s all private so they expect people to use social features for team awareness. A new member has to get a list of repos worked on by their team (maybe permissions are granted based on a team) and then go star and watch them.
This is not a problem for a single coder or someone who’s on a few projects. But it’s not very good for an enterprise that already has an organization.
Instead of tidying this up, github seems to be getting worse with feeds and stuff.
I never hit the GitHub.com homepage so I never see any of this work. I always start directly on a repo, notifications, or search.