I suppose this is useful for people into such tabloid-style things, but the name bothers me. We seem to be heading on to a path where "Git" becomes synonymous with "GitHub". This is worrying because, among other reasons, it sort of subverts the "D" part of DVCS.
At first I thought this was to track development of git itself. Something I would be interested in, not that there aren't avenues to do so.
Related anecdote: about 3 years ago, I was interviewing a student for an internship. In passing he mentioned he had used different VCSs for different projects. I asked what the major differences were between the VCSs.
His answer: "Git is public, so you can only use it with open-source code, whereas you can use Subversion with any code."
I understand the sentiment completely, I was going to throw Github in the name but then thought I might get a barrage of takedown notices. The domain squatters left me in a tight spot when brain storming and then I found Git Gossip and couldn't refuse the alliteration.
I'm not too worried about this. People who actually use git on a day-to-day basis shouldn't have any such misunderstanding. They may not even use GitHub for such work (I know I don't).
I didn't notice at first the slider to pick the top limit -- that's very neat, you should emphasize visually it. My firsts thoughts were "cool idea but top 1000 is waaaay too much" and that thought stuck with me.
Also, might be cool to have a estimate of the reading amount you're subscribing to when you slide (eg "top X == about Y posts a week")
You are correct! It almost looks like a page divider, I've just thrown in a comment for now to help others until I figure out a better solution. The reading amount solution makes perfect sense and will also throw that in when I can.
This is a really neat idea -- essentially, outsource your web of authority to a third party.
Given that it (apparently) only takes around 300 followers to crack the top 1,000, I wonder how long it's going to take for gray-referrer services to start advertising this as an organic traffic source.
It's not really gossip, more like planet.git, or planet.github. In the early days of blogging pretty much every project had this kind of syndication for their contributors.
This is probably the best use of a slider I've seen on a website (and the main concept is nice too!). Out of curiosity what's the setup on the back-end?
Do they give out awards for that sort of thing? "Best slider of 2014"
The backend is using Node.js for the server and parser. Everything is in MongoDB and hosted on Heroku. I really love that stack for rapid prototyping, this project took me roughly 3-4 hours from start to finish.
