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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by verdverm »

misnome wrote: post #8
misnome wrote: post #5

Ugh, they've gotten rid of the commit message, because they merged "commits" "branches" "tags" into the header bar. If you want to see what the latest commit was you need an additional click. Turns out that glancing at the header was useful to tell what was going on! On the plus side, GitLab's repo view (which I disliked because it felt cluttered and always hard to find what I wanted) is now easier to use and read th…

Also, I'm noticing a lot more "preload" pages ... e.g. the page loads with blank placeholder fields for the commit and text information that's then replaced live after loading the page. Maybe it did this before and is just slower now?

yup, this is a Jira move, GitHub sounds like it's on it's way down fast

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by carlosdp »

verdverm wrote: post #29
carlosdp wrote: post #24

Honestly, it's a positive improvement. Better information layout, and the code is still front and center. None of the core functions really changed place, just changed padding a little.

What about determining the language and license? That used to be front and center and two of the most important things when I land on a repo page.

I highly doubt that's the case for most people when using Github on a daily basis though.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by efiecho »

Ugh, that's not good. Latest commit message and date will not display under Code without Javascript enabled, but if I click around in the repository and go back to Code or keep refreshing the page, they suddenly show up, still with Javascript disabled. Can anyone explain this?

However, I do like the visual part of the new layout.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by misnome »

verdverm wrote: post #41
misnome wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, I'm noticing a lot more "preload" pages ... e.g. the page loads with blank placeholder fields for the commit and text information that's then replaced live after loading the page. Maybe it did this before and is just slower now?

yup, this is a Jira move, GitHub sounds like it's on it's way down fast

My cynical guess is that they used “page load time” as a metric to prove their new system was “faster”.

And maybe only tested internally on a faster system, or with hot-cache repository loads? It doesn’t seem to do it on reloads, though going away for a bit and coming back seems to cause it again (and, visibly, different parts of the page load at different times).

Anyway, It definitely reeks of “enterprise” so I guess Microsoft finally got enough people into github to steer the ship towards the iceberg.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by bluefox »

I've been using GitHub since 2008. My default browser has JavaScript disabled for various reasons. It was not long after Microsoft acquired GitHub that the UI changed for the worse, but it was minor and still very functional. Now, it's terrible: the dates and commit information is missing, for example. I expect soon it will reach GitLab "quality": unable to view source code without JavaScript enabled. I'm still on the fence on whether to act on it now, for my own projects, or wait for the fatal blow. Since much of the programming world is on GitHub, this looks pretty bad for me.
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