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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by bluefox »

efiecho wrote: post #55
bluefox wrote: post #48

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 th…

> I expect soon it will reach GitLab "quality": unable to view source code without JavaScript enabled. I also hate GitLab for this, but I learned today that they are actually working on fixing this, by shifting some components to server side rendering. Awkward for me if GitLab suddenly will become the better choice.

The way it looks now, a self-hosted gogs with a nojs patch may be the way forward. The application-specific part (gogs.js) is <2kloc and it's already rendering stuff on the server. I'm giving it a few weeks before I've had enough...

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by rochacon »

h91wka wrote: post #25

Looks absolutely horrible. I use a laptop as my main dev machine, and all these 16px and 30px paddings that they added everywhere create real tunnel vision experience. I guess people with huge displays don't mind... But I absolutely do. Looks like another case when a frontend team does something to justify their existence. But let's look at the positives: the last redesign of that sort helped me to completely migrate…

> I guess people with huge displays don't mind...

I use a ultra-wide (2560x1080) monitor and it looks terrible [1]. The repository header being "fluid" put the repository name and watch/star/fork buttons so far out of the rest of the repository info, like branch name, commit info etc., that using GitHub maximized feels very weird and tiring.

I get using the whole resolution for the menu bar, since its content is disconnected to the rest of the page content. But having part of the repository info in different "aspects" don't make sense for me

[1] https://imgur.com/FNs1qb6

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by ithkuil »

verdverm wrote: post #21
Sachaniman wrote: post #18

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.

I gave negative feedback as well during the preview. Really love that they ignored it...

Perhaps they got more positive feedback from people other than you?

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by karmakaze »

I thought you all were exaggerating. So sorry not.

The commit list looked like it was doing some sort of eventual consistent update, then I realized that hovering over different commits expands that one shifting rows up/down as you hover on different items.

GitHub: under new management. My theory about management is like my theory for bad music at venues. The management greenlights which acts will play, unfortunately most owners don't have a clue, they themselves are not the target audience. There are also legendary venues where obviously they were 'in the know'.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by zowanet »

I don't like change.

I don't like the circular avatars - I don't need the place I store my code to feel like a social network.

But the worst change for me is that the 'Languages' section is now below the fold. Now I have to scroll to find out if I should ignore the latest compiler, package manager or system tool because it was written in JavaScript.

Edit: Gah! I only noticed this by directly comparing old and new, but the filenames in the main list are no longer blue, so now on each row, the filename, commit message and timestamp are in three subtly different shades of gray. That, combined with the lack of gridlines just makes the whole thing look like word soup.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by WorldMaker »

verdverm wrote: post #40
amadeuspagel wrote: post #2

I don't see what's wrong with it. One thing I love about it is that I can now finally read readmes even if the window is only half or even a third of the width of my screen. Other then that it just looks a bit more modern. One thing I just slightly dislike is that the width of the body is limited, but not the width of the header. Looks inconsistent.

wait, how do you find readmes easier now? They used to be full width no matter how wide your window was (I put to 1/2 for browser). Now they only occupy 70% of that space. So I just lost 30% of my readme width to empty space. This is just terrible UX

GitHub never had full width pages before of the Repo interface. They used a giant gutter on both sides on widescreens in classic Web 1.0 blog template fashion. That ~30% empty space has always been there beside the README, it's just now consolidated to a single side and used to bring a few more bits of information "above the fold".

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by conradfr »

The picture on the profile page is so comically big.

I'm not sure what was wrong with the old design. Now everything is too rounded and flat and there's not enough contrast.

I also liked GitHub better years ago when the top bar was not black, so yeah I can hold a grudge :)

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