github-corners

Interesting project. Some advice: 1. Very few people care about a "free and open-source social network built with and steered by the community". You can't build a social network for just those people. It'll feel empty, and they'll leave. You need to attract lots of people who don't care about that. 2. Get rid of your landing page. See #1 for the reason. When people land on your domain they should be prompted to sign up, or look around. That's what a social network is for, after all. 3. Focus on making it work. Get to a MVP. Quietly open it to the public. Call it a beta. Don't waste time on press releases. 4. If you can't make it work, make it look like it works. No one wants to join a social media site that isn't working. "Eh, I'll join in a few months" and they'll never come back again. 5. Stay true to your principles! But keep it classy

I can see the novelty of it ("Look at my fancy <github> tag!"), but it would definitely be more helpful if it used a standard HTML element (preferably <div>). I've personally opted for this implementation on my own projects: https://github.com/tholman/github-corners, which are just SVGs which makes it super portable.

Of course it's worth mentioning :) Even small projects are worth posting, like this recent one by Holman: https://github.com/tholman/github-corners