sindresorhus/refined-github

Twitter account for Refined GitHub? #2242

trivikr posted onGitHub

Hi,

I just started using Refined GitHub, and am very happy with the experience. The updates maintained by @bfred-it in #1137 helped go through all updates to discover which ones can be used to improve productivity.

There's an official twitter account called GitHub Changelog which tweets about anything that has been added/changed/deprecated/fixed or removed by GitHub. It would be helpful if a similar Twitter account existed for Refined GitHub which tweets updates from #1137 and other important announcements.

Regards, Trivikram


You can follow https://twitter.com/sindresorhus. He posts updates from time to time about Refined GitHub.

posted by jerone over 5 years ago

Maintaining a Twitter account is a lot of work. We can do it if anyone volunteers.

posted by sindresorhus over 5 years ago

I am following the RSS feed of the master branch. That way, I always know what's new without having to follow all discussions.

There are tools that automatically fetch RSS feeds and post new articles to Twitter.

The commit messages are very technical though (and sometimes just meta stuff), so possibly not catchy enough to put it directly on Twitter.

posted by FloEdelmann over 5 years ago

There's no way to get a Twitter changelog account "for free": volunteers will eventually falter and automation is no better than the commits list.

You can follow either Sindre's Twitter or mine for new features, or just the updates issue: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/1137, but all of those will still only report new features rather than small changes.


If you really want Twitter, the best solution would be a bot on https://now.sh that:

  1. reacts to PR merges
  2. skips meta commits (either by title or PR tag)
  3. uses the description and screenshot fields for new features and the PR title for the rest
  4. tweets the result

It doesn't sound like a lot of work, but it's only going to happen if someone writes that. You'd need a https://zeit.co/github and a Twitter App

posted by fregante over 5 years ago

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