GitHub wants more new contributors, because that's what GitHub is for

GitHub has added a chunk of features it says will help new users and projects build better communities. Singing the “teamwork” song, the organisation says the features announced here are about making it easier to contribute to projects. For project maintainers, new contributors will show a “first time contributor badge” …

[Anonymous Coward]

Best feature of them all...

Working backups, unlike GitLab.

[Adam 52]

Re: Best feature of them all...

How do you know?

Gitlab had a comprehensive backup plan but it let them down, github's may well do the same.

[Tom 38]

Re: Best feature of them all...

It's not comprehensive unless it is tested.

[wolfetone]

Re: Best feature of them all...

"Working backups, unlike GitLab."

You only know backups are working until you need them.

We'll just sit here, quietly, and wait for the moment GitHub goes TITSUP and see if their backups work so swimmingly well.

[handleoclast]

Excessively sweary?

There's no such fucking thing.

Insufficiently sweary, fuck yeah.

YMMFV.

[bombastic bob]

Re: Excessively sweary?

What the FORNICATE do they mean by THAT *excrement*? Holy Bat Guano! That's a load of Bovine Sewage! [do i get a badge for 'swear avoidance' ?]

also getting my coat.