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pawadu on April 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: You don't need a Linkedin account

To clarify: github already has github.io for user pages but I think you can do much more with even less effort!

If anyone from github / gitlab / bitbucket/ ??? is reading this please consider this simple way of making your site more awesome:

1. Let some special repo name (e.g. me, aboutme, cv) have a special meaning.

2. If a user has this special repo make it his front page or at least link to it from hist front page.

3. If the repo has a README.md or README.rst or READM.org make it his landing page for that repo (github and bitbucket already do this).

So next time I am curious about Joe Developer I know I will find him not on linkedin but on gitlab.com/joedeveloper/cv

mydigitalself on April 25, 2017 [–]

Great suggestion, I've created an issue for it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31393

pawadu on April 27, 2017 | [–]

Thanks Mike!

everyone else: feel free to give #31393 a thumbs up

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