Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#81

Post by onnnon » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

I like it. Wider content, improved IA, cleaner graphics, and mobile support. I can see people not liking the repo nav being fullscreen with very wide monitors. Maybe an option to pin it to the content width would be useful.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#82

Post by slmjkdbtl » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

rowanseymour wrote: post #3

It's not the layout I dislike but the styling which makes it harder to see what is a button and what isn't, e.g. only 2 of these are clickable https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT

Reminds me of sr.ht who just straight up make every link blue + underline, on the scale of design effectiveness it already beats 99% websites

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#83

Post by gscho » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

When I logged in today and saw the redesign I thought to myself, "how long until there is a hacker news post full of comments blasting this"?

Thank you for not disappointing.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#84

Post by MikusR » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

s9w wrote: post #46

Where did releases go?

Same place gitlab has them: somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#85

Post by anonymousab » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

I'm not the biggest fan, but the site seems functionally much faster on the massive repos I'm working with. Overall a net benefit.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#86

Post by sloreti » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

Frustrating that it no longer shows the latest commit message at the top by default.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#87

Post by AlexandrB » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

This is getting cliche. With any modern UI redesign you can immediately guess what's changed:

    * Removed/reduced visual separation between elements
    * Flattened things more
    * More padding

Modern UI designers are strikingly unoriginal.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#88

Post by MikusR » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:54 PM UTC

They destroyed the one thing Github had over alternatives (like gitlab). An easily findable releases section.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#89

Post by jamespetercook » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:55 PM UTC

karmakaze wrote: post #76

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…

> “ There are also legendary venues where obviously they were 'in the know'.”

Could you elaborate on this?

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

#90

Post by matteocontrini » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:55 PM UTC

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.