Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

news.ycombinator.com

61–70 of 590 posts

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#61
A list of feedbacks on the new UI here: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/heknhd/some_real_fe...

Personally I would love to see some fixes to the project page where with the new Design you waste ton of space on the screen for things that you could see before just in a small row now they take 20/30% of the right part of the screen just if you don't scroll and if you scroll down you get 50% of the screen or more just white...

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#62

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.

Another benefit is that the project pages seem to load faster than before (and _much_ faster than GitLab's project pages)

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#66
post #12

Like it. More important links upfront.

Determining which language the repo is now requires scrolling, as now the readme is only 70% width instead of 100% So much wasted space and loss of information if you ask me.

This is my biggest gripe with it. The sidebar only extends down for a short length, but causes the entire readme to shrink and results in a lot of empty space. I'm indifferent to all the other changes but the readme shrinking for no good reason is quite annoying.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#68
Tools which change like this never stand the test of time. A far better move would have been to standardize GH APIs and provide native clients, guaranteeing long-term utility on many platforms. Git passed the test of time, but github likely will not.

Edit: today I learned a lot of young people sound like old people. Interesting perspective.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#69

Tools which change like this never stand the test of time. A far better move would have been to standardize GH APIs and provide native clients, guaranteeing long-term utility on many platforms. Git passed the test of time, but github likely will not. Edit: today I learned a lot of young people sound like old people. Interesting perspective.

[flagged]

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#70

Sign up for the developer feature previews, so you can give feedback to these changes before they're published. I gave some negative feedback about it earlier regarding this change, but it seems I might have been a part of the minority.

Same here - but it also feels like I got the feature preview notification maybe a week before the feature actually launched, two weeks max. Didn't feel like enough time for me to properly test the new interface, or for them to properly evaluate feedback.
Post reply on HN