List view

[dbousamra]

Hey.

This tool is actually really useful. At first I thought it was just a play thing/experiment, but it turns out it can be extremely useful for finding useful projects, as Github is terrible at surfacing interesting repos.

I am finding however, browsing via the graph a little tedious. Specifically, I want to be able to view the list of repos related to a repo, and their description, in a list that I can easily peruse. Currently, I have to click each item in the graph, and make a note of where the original item is, so I can click back to it.

Some features I think are worth adding are:

• List view (taking the graph and viewing it as a linear stream of items)
• Sorting (sorting by relevance, stars etc)

Would you be interested in something like this?

[anvaka]

Yes, I think this is a great idea.

I was thinking about ability to have a focused view, where only first and second degree neighbors are visible, and not only from immediate country but from the entire map.

It is still rendered as a graph while the rest of the map is moved completely out of the view.

From this "focused" view there could be a button e.g. in context menu to show projects as a table (rendered in own panel)

I haven't thought about loading descriptions right away - as it might drain API quota for the users, but maybe having a button with explicit call to action/quota usage could help.

Does this make sense?

[dbousamra]

Yep, this sounds like it would be useful!

I am running into regular 'quota exceeded' messages at the moment. Not sure how that can be solved - perhaps caching responses and sharing them?

[anvaka]

GitHub gives 60 requests per hour unless you "sign in" with github - then it is 5k requests - typically more than enough

Note, this project requests minimal set of public permissions and nothing more

[anvaka]

Added an option to the context menu to explore the neighborhood as a list:

list.view.mp4

It is already deployed. How does this look? I am not sure if I should remove previous highlights or keep them.

[dbousamra]

Looks good, I like it! Will try in more anger tomorrow