edit: realized they merged the two columns.. yeah i hope they go back and split it up again.
But what it does (imo) is make it look like someone who's only ever submitted one patch to any project be able to put that project as one of their primary 'pinned' projects. So now it's harder for people to tell if something like whether I am a primary contributor to the `ansible/ansible` project, or if I'm just sticking it in my pinned list for vanity reasons.
It would be great, if you can pin your contributions also. For example, If I create organization for experimenting with stuff and contribute a lot to its repos, my contributions are overwhelmed with experimental stuff. Kinda sad.
I didn't start using Github to have a neat resume to hand out to companies, I started using it because it allows me to collaborate in open source projects in an easy way without much overhead. And I've loved doing projects for fun there.
I just hope it doesn't become Linkedin, as I recently closed my account there.
I regularly contribute to a handful (like 3) different repos, and occasionally a few more (maybe 2 or 3 more). I have to manually type in the repo name every time because the main feed is so useless when you're in an organization. We have 100+ repos, so that main feed is a bunch of things I don't care about, and the sidebar list is some random list of repos I have contributed to.
Main page should prominently show me links to my most recently contributed-to repos and my open PRs, but it is so worthless and generic that I get annoyed when I accidentally don't go directly to the repo I need.
And don't get me started on the organization main page, what a stupidly pointless page.
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(Also not a big fan of reducing the display from 10 to 5 repos, but what can you do...)
Edit (21:55Z): And it's working again for me.
- Two columns meant more information to show off and to glean about someone else.
- Two columns forced people to have short descriptions for their projects, just like commit titles.
Would it have been that hard to just make it "pin 10 repos" or "pin 5 personal + 5 external"?
