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0 pointssotojuan10y ago0 comments

I can make a one-time off contribution to a big project (I did actually, with React) and pin it to the top. With the two columns, it didn't show up because I have more contributions in other projects. Both sides have their pros and cons.

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franciscop10y ago

Yes, but when it says "Projects contributed to" as a different section from "Popular repositories" it looks like the contributed ones are NOT your own.

When it says "Pinned projects" it doesn't mean "My Repositories" nor "Contributed to", it just means I chose to show them. If I choose to show them it means that:

1. I contributed a lot to it so I want to show it. 2. I want show a project as mine when I just did a small contribution. This is easy to caught.

So you have a choice of showing your work vs trying to cheat, while in the old one it was just everything mixed. I for one welcome to be able to choose and think in total is a positive change, but I understand some people worry that other people "cheat".

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