Engine of forum

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/22/2018 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > I don't argue against the usefulness of the features that github
> > provides, but I'm also wary of the fact that it's basically a walled
> > garden -- there's no simple way I know of to extract data like pull
> > requests, comments, cross-references, etc..  I mean, it's *possible*
> > to write a web crawler that does just that, but such functionality
> > is second-class, and one might argue, that it is possible at all is
> > merely a happy accident, since github's very design seems to be
> > geared at drawing people to centralize everything on github.  It's
> > not quite at the point of vendor lock-in, but it's certainly
> > uncomfortably close, in my view.
> 
> As for github comments, they get echoed to me as emails. So I have an
> email archive of them.

That's good to know.

Still, an export function that will give you your data in some
computer-parseable format would have been nice.


T

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