Any READMEs ending in @.markdown@ or @.textile@ will now be displayed using the proper filter. Take Josh’s here, for instance. Sexy. Update: We speak RDoc now, too. Use the @.rdoc@ extension.

Edit: these features have been replaced by https://github.com/explore. Wondering what’s hot on GitHub? Wonder no further. We just pushed out the popular forked and popular watched charts. They’ll be updated nightly with the latest and

We now have a Google Group for discussions. Use it to ask questions, talk about ideas, whatever. We’ll see you there. http://groups.google.com/group/github/

Apparently some of the more popular feed readers can’t handle HTTP authentication, SSL feeds, or a combination of the two. No matter! GitHub private feeds are now accessible via a private token. Note that whenever

We’ll have an hour or two of downtime tonight around midnight PST while the awesome dudes at Engine Yard upgrade our disk capacity. Thanks, see you on the flip side.

As the launch draws near I thought I’d share some awesome things people have been saying about the GH. What’s amazing about Github is how it really brings the social aspect into play. Chris and

Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads. They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another excuse for not moving to

Lately people have been asking about our pricing plan. While we’re not ready to reveal it quite yet, we are ready to talk about one aspect of it: GitHub will host open source projects for

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Just like Facebook and FriendFeed, we’re now showing off our commit log. Not every change merits a blog post, y’know?

You can now add multiple emails to your account using the, uh, account link. And hey, are your commits not being linked to your GitHub account? Here’s why: the most recent commit was signed with