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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by SenHeng »

Hedja wrote: post #117

I have a single major problem with all of their new layouts. They place content at extreme ends of the screen, completely stretched out like a rubber band with No Man's Land in the middle. In this case, the top half is stretched and the bottom half is centred. Completely inconsistent and tiring for your eyes darting around corners of the screen. Example: https://twitter.com/JahedDEV/status/1275532988772683776 I don't…

I remember this happened before several years ago in a previous redesign where the top menu would just stretch to fill the entire screen. It was later changed to one with a proper max width. I guess they forgot that lesson.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by verdverm »

spenczar5 wrote: post #123
AlexandrB wrote: post #87

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.

I want UI designers to be unoriginal. I wish they were less original. I don't like learning new visual languages every 5 years; I want intuitive interfaces, which mostly means familiar interfaces.

I want boring interfaces that work, make information easy to find, and help me get my job done.

Designers have boring jobs under this regime, this their need to create unnecessary work and pain for users.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by humblebee »

Hedja wrote: post #117

I have a single major problem with all of their new layouts. They place content at extreme ends of the screen, completely stretched out like a rubber band with No Man's Land in the middle. In this case, the top half is stretched and the bottom half is centred. Completely inconsistent and tiring for your eyes darting around corners of the screen. Example: https://twitter.com/JahedDEV/status/1275532988772683776 I don't…

Ya, I didn't understand this design choice. For a while I've had some custom css which also extends the width of the main content on github as well because I've always found reading some github issues with logs in them challenging.

This is the css I'm running now to fix this, as well as extend the width of the main content. The 1600px is such that when using i3 and having my browser be half the screen it consumes most of the screen space on my 4k monitor.

    :root {
        --width: 1600px;
    }

    .container-xl {
        max-width: var(--width);
    }
    .pagehead {
        padding-left: calc(50% - (var(--width) / 2));
        padding-right: calc(50% - (var(--width) / 2));
    }

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by exochrono »

I haven't had too much time to play around with it yet today, but Github is core to our development workflow and productivity workflow. Everything for our small team is tracked in GH issues and tagged with labels, and of course all our code goes through GH PRs. IMHO the features I use most (issues, pull requests, code browsing) didn't take any discovery to continue using normally and the interface was much faster, so I am a fan.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by eyerony »

DreamScatter wrote: post #136

The new web design layout on GitHub is awful and has less accessibility. For example, the repository languages used to be at the top center of the page, while now I need to scroll past the bottom of the screen and find the information off centered in an awkward place. The stars and other top bar links are off centered in an awkward way for the mouse and the eyes. Also, the profile tabs are less accessible because fol…

Oh man, they've made it way harder to quickly evaluate the state of a repo, which has always (for me) been about 90% of the appeal of Github. Moving releases out of the tab list hurts, too.

Does it also feel "heavier"/slower to anyone else? Like there's more JS running or something? That'd already gotten a little worse but I hope it's not trending even farther into feeling "webappy". Ew.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by ajoseps »

amedvednikov wrote: post #154

I think the old github design was perfect. Upcoming https://gitly.org is going to have a similar design, even simpler. It's written in V, so it's very light and fast. Open source release this week. Other features (from the readme): - Minimal amount of RAM usage (works great on the cheapest $3.5 AWS Lightsail instance) - Easy to deploy (a single - Works without JavaScript - Detailed language stats for each directory -…

why is there so much dead space when you scroll down past the footer?

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by Nextgrid »

verdverm wrote: post #38
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…

So much of modern design seems to be more about / for the designers than the users or UX. Maybe they need a good introspective period in their art, or some psychology classes?

I don't understand the appeal in this for the designers either. Back in the old days (~2010s) every UI had some personality and very intricate details that the designer would be proud of and that will differentiate them from the competition. Nowadays it's the same flat, white and empty UIs everywhere - there is no significant difference. Would a designer really be doing their personal brand a favour by putting one of these new "designs" on it?

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by eyerony »

verdverm wrote: post #32
somerandomacc wrote: post #23

Like many others, I use Github every day. Changes like this add friction to our workflow. There better be a damn good reason for these changes, otherwise it's a pointless redesign that looks no better than it did previously while simultaneously adding a slight overhead as users "learn" the new layout. Does anyone know of an option to revert this update?

My hypothesis is the point is to compete with Jira. That would be MS's biggest competitor in this space, and the changes make it look a whole lot more like that. I wonder if MS has gone back on their word to leave GitHub to it's own devices...? I have been unable to find a method to revert. Best option might be to make a bunch of noise. Other than that, it's migration time.

> My hypothesis is the point is to compete with Jira.

When they start making everything drag & droppable at a huge cost to UI latency and bundle size (plus, for some reason, idle resource use), we'll know for sure that's what they're doing.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by nshm »

One very important positive thing is that the whole readme is now displayed on mobile version and that is the one which is indexed by Google.

Previously they only shown few top lines and thus all README was not visible in the search engine. Something that awesomeopensource took huge advantage of.

I wish they can enable google analytics on Github pages.

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