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Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

This was one of those predictable things. Generally when you start your project on the words "x clone", x is going to take issue with it. Often an application's UI is one of it's greatest assets, and copying it is generally a no-go.

Changing the colors of your theme doesn't really substantially change the UI. They should strive to become something of their own, and go after improving past what GitHub offers.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by tenken »

Really Gitbucket should seek to change their UX. Not just the UI. Right now gitbucket looks like a functional clone of github, that's bad.

It's possible to appear different, but retain feature-set it's just hard. And obvisously -- I think, you could bundle a legacy Github theme as an addon to gitbucket provided by the community if you really wanted to. Just not ship the product out the door as a 100% clone of github, UI and all.

Re: Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

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Post by sytse »

I want to applaud GitHub for doing this in a peaceful manner. They have every right to ask this. I think having all project develop their own UI style will allow for more innovation to happen. At GitLab we are greatly inspired by GitHub but over time the GitLab became more distinctive. And that allowed a trickle of innovation to flow back, for example protected branches.
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