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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by RampBiggety »

thex10 wrote: post #210
zowanet wrote: post #78

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, bu…

> 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 Shoot, now I notice it too. I like the redesign but that is just.. bad.

Yeah, slamp biggety, and gosh damn, of course, I just noticed A COMPUTER flying by our apartment. Goggedy Goops. Gosh damn. I can just swear it happened. Giggety gloops. Did anyone get that. God swearn. It just flew past over. G'd'mohn. I just don't know what to say. It's just. Uneasy to explain.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by RampBiggety »

rowanseymour wrote: post #96
juliendc wrote: post #9

They are following the trends of flat design and rounded corners, which I don’t really mind. I’m more bothered by the fact that nothing is aligned: the GitHub logo, the breadcrumb, the horizontal menu and the issue title are all on different verticals. Looks messy.

We'll all get used to it, but it's harder now to see what is a button and what isn't, e.g. only 2 of these are clickable https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT

We will all get used to it all right. I use Arch Linux, free in every sense, and couldn't give a damn about OSX fuckeries. Get over your pussy free lives. Get arch linux-

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by 7ewis »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #195
7ewis wrote: post #159

I know obviously files are important in GitHub, but for the opening page of a random repo I think I would actually prefer to see the README first. I just went to the Explore page and picked the first repo: https://github.com/johannesboyne/gofakes3 You have to scroll so far down to find out what the project _actually is_. I know there's an about message on the right, but it's not great. The new UI does look more moder…

That seems like a tradeoff between people discovering a project and people developing that project. People initially discovering a project usually want the README; people developing a project may potentially want either.

That is true, I don't really know what the answer is. You could do something like show half code/half readme, with extra code hidden behind a fold.. but I'm sure that would annoy devs working on those additional hidden files.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by mixologic »

bconnorwhite wrote: post #234

This is the MacOS 11 thread all over again. Apparently no one on HN has been through a redesign... For those of you complaining, congratulations, you've discovered ~ nostalgia ~ In two weeks you'll inevitably find the old design ugly, and forget GitHub ever looked any other way. In 5 years, each will get another round of improved designs, and there will be a thread on HN full of people complaining about how the new d…

Low information density means "less clutter" for somebody new to the interface, but it means "many more steps" to provide all the information that a dense design allows for. So much design fails to take into account human expertise, and our ability to learn complex interfaces. They get the A/B treatment which optimizes for beginners, which always leans towards the simpler, easier design.

This is why we'll never get a better spreadsheet design. In the hands of experts it's already perfect.

If modern UI designers were responsible for building musical instruments, there would be a lot more kazoos and recorders, and a lot fewer cellos and bassoons.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by MH15 »

The only problem I have with the design is the repo header not being centered. I'll fix this with some userstyle CSS but it's a terrible design pattern. Other then that I actually really like how it looks/feels/works.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by lukeplato »

ljm wrote: post #126

I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator. When I'm browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit sho…

> the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen

Maybe they are trying to push towards using badges/shields inside the README [1]. But yeah, I agree that this makes monitoring repo health less convenient.

[1] https://shields.io/category/build

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by fireattack »

humblebee wrote: post #163
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 mos…

Thank you, this works perfectly.
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