Another concurrent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616422
We've merged it hither.
Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#102Looks 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 disc…
This was my first thought as well.
A menu that uses the entire space, but then something in the middle.
It's just weird.
I really don't like this change and I'm pretty open to it normally
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#103This 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.
Don't forget: * Added dark mode
I think dark mode was a harbinger of dumbed down UI. Instead of spending time on one good UI, designers and developers were forced to make 2 mediocre ones instead. Plus dark mode is easier if you remove all detail and depth from control elements.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#104This 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.
There should be a Wirth's Law for UI:
UI design is getting whitespace padding more rapidly than screen resolution is increasing.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#105They destroyed the one thing Github had over alternatives (like gitlab). An easily findable releases section.
This is my largest complaint (so far), since it was something I was looking for on a project just after the release.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#106Wow, they rolled that out quick! I think they were pushing the beta just a week or two ago…
yea, i activated it in feature preview for about about a week or so. i love the new UI! i honestly don't mind the flat design and the spacing.
the UI is truly responsive now. that's what i care most about.
they finally made it possible for me to read code at my specified zoom level. it's something that i struggle with on a daily basis on many websites.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#107I'm completely neutral. They've changed their UI many times over the years and this is no different. Products usually change UI and that's just a fact of life.
>They've changed their UI many times over the years and this is no different. Products usually change UI and that's just a fact of life.
Your justification for bad redesigns is that... other companies do it too? That's a very apathetic/defeatist attitude.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#108They destroyed the one thing Github had over alternatives (like gitlab). An easily findable releases section.
I don't really use the releases section (don't recall it existing, to be honest), but right now it's among the first things I saw when going to a repo. It's in the new sidebar.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#109It looks OK, but I hate how the header is now justified to the edges instead of being centered.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#110It's never been a good time to try something else. That something new is GitLab.
GitHub however, capsized one of its servers yesterday resulting in downtime for some including me and today I wake up to this horrific eyesore that Github has blasted onto my screen, which I can't revert or disable.
It now looks like a shameless rushed copy of the GitLab look. I'd rather use GitLab for real instead.