Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Afterglow turns repository history into a night city
Afterglow invites you to paste a public GitHub repository and explore its history as an interactive city, with views for hotspots, bus factor, quiet areas and code coupling.
○Open
⊠Login
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✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Developers exploring public repository history
- Worth noticing
- The page says it reads paths, times and pseudonymous authors—not file contents beyond line counts—and stores no emails.
Field notes
The interface includes keyboard help, a photo mode and a table view alongside the city visualization. Example repositories are listed, but the extracted page says no repository is loaded yet, so its analysis is described rather than demonstrated here. The privacy statement limits the stated inputs to commit paths, times and pseudonymous authors, with file contents read only for line counts.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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