Hey there someguy!
"Last night during the talk with @ned, someone mentioned "what about github via STEEM?"
That guy was me! I would love to invite you to join the hangout that @dantheman credits for having a big role in steems creation: our weekly #beyondbitcoin hangouts. It is likely because of our long history working with the technological genius who created steemit that I have the insights I have, and I can assure you our hangouts can be a place of pure gold (if you like the github idea I have plenty more where that came from). If you would like to join our family, you can RSVP here to get coverage of your work: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@officialfuzzy/guest-signups-beyond-bitcoin-hangout-175-9-30-16-rsvp-to-friday-s-hangout-get-a-cut-in-our-hangout
Now with that said. I love the idea. I do, however, have a slight concern with not having this as its own separate chain. My primary issue is that while steem can easily (as in for much less of a cost than spinning up a new chain) add translation services directly to steemit and other front ends, it is not so easy for something like github.
If there are going to be 1000 clones, I believe we want to start with something like github steemit (which I call Gitit) and have an initial phase where moving your github repos to the new chain rewards you with the native currency. This process would replace mining and could be used to distribute 60-70% of the tokens to ensure the people curating are coders. Though this might not be foolproof I am sure there are ways to mitigate issues. The point though is: find a way to ensure distribution to people who are guaranteed coders who can use it.
The problem with the solution being built on top of steem is that the vast majority of people who do upvote content on here cannot read code and those who can likely do not have the time to do so (because those with lots of power in steemit are also generally devs).
Now please dont take this as me putting down your work. In fact I love that you were thinking about this after I gave everyone my idea openly. And also glad you built what you built, but this genuinely seems like a chain that should be cloned as opposed to being directly on the steem blockchain. Like I said when talking to ned and you guys, I am not against multiple chains...I just think they should have good reasons for being separate chains with use cases that expand our toolkit and the toolkits of everyone wanting to build Graphene based chains.
Feel free to let me know what you think or if you disagree, and remember I am always holding friday hangouts in the case you are interested in joining and discussing :)
It sounds like a great idea to move this to it's own developer focused Steem chain, but at the same time, that could limit the audience.
Without enough traction on this alternative chain, it could lead to malicious attacks, or simply the fact that most whales aren't actually developers, there's only a select few developer whales like Dan and James - without the same response as the real Steem, it might not take off.
I quite like the idea of centralising some things into the STEEM chain. The JSON metadata attached to an account has proven to be a great way to implement something like Namecoin, with name spoofing much lower due to the costs of making an account on the STEEM chain.
If we had separate chains for SteemDNS, "Gitit" etc. I would have to be maintaining my profile across 3 different chains, and those 3 chains would all need to be maintained individually (and with how fast the STEEM project moves, I think it's pretty difficult to maintain any fork which makes major changes without a lot of talented developers).
I'm sure there are people out there that actually could maintain such a fork. Unfortunately, that's not my area of expertise. Thank you for the input Fuzzy, maybe I'll join you this weeks hangout :)
wow man, i just found this post while looking up "hithub for steem" for my post where I mention microsoft's 7 billion dollar acquisition or github and I kind of remmebered SOMEONE had something like this a while ago, I think theres multiple steem github projects out there but anyway maybe theres just yours, so yeah anyway I just found this and WOW, I MUST ask....
Is it still working? *I see the website is stil up[... Is there a front end that shows all the projects people have uploaded or worked on here? Did anyone ever use this at all? I would love to help resurect this if it never took off, or if I did id love tpo learn more! Is it the same project or has it changed names? Is this oen still running? Any new plans for it since haha it HAS been like 2 years hahaha I don't expect you to still be runnning this proejct at all man :D I know it was more of a proof of opcncep[ty but it COULD be an amazing repository network wooooeee I love me some sourceforge backflashes hahahah
didn't souyrceforge ALSO get bought out? Haha I rememebr using that for open sopurce stuff
ahh the dream is to make steem a github that would be the great big central database for decentralized open source projects ahhhh it would be SOOO nice :D it is like Open Sorcery! Benjamin Franklin would be proud of us :D
Thank you and most welcome sir@gentlebot and ackza..