With proper MVC design, why can't they make a new design optional or at least make the old design accessible like old.github.com?
Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “ There are also legendary venues where obviously they were 'in the know'.” Could you elaborate on this?
I took it to mean that most music venues are managed by people who don't know or care much about the music they book; however the best ones are run by competent people who are also passionate about the music. It seems like a pretty good analogy to me. A lot of UI redesigns (including this one) seem like they were approved by people who liked the look of some static mock-ups, but weren't regular users of the site. Lot…
Yes exactly what I meant.
Even the changelog summary is similarly directionless:
> Today we’ve launched a refresh to the design of GitHub UI, and layout changes to your repository homepage. We hope these changes improve your experience visiting and maintaining repositories, and using GitHub in general. Along with visual design changes, you’ll see the the following updates to your repository homepage:
- Responsive layout and improved mobile web experience
- More content surfaced via the repository sidebar
- Ability to show or hide Releases, Packages, and Environments in your repository sidebar
The whole thing reads like it was an update to a landing page, which it is for some projects. But it's also a core point of collaboration and workflow for many, not to be rearranged without precise and deliberate intention for each and every change. A "refresh to the design" rebrand to signal new ownership is not welcome.
Edit: it's even really bad as a landing page. I just realized that the README is now often 'below the fold' because of so much linespacing whitespace above it.
The 'refresh' was clearly meant to be for its own sake and any improvements secondary or incidental.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#403it deprioritises the readme. which was the whole point of Github.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's great to read this comment - it's always nice to know that community suggestions aren't just cast into the void
Reminds me of when HN added the [-] and everybody complained it was on the wrong side but they couldn’t be * to fix it.
I love that it's on the right. It means when on mobile, I don't accidentally upvote something that I meant to collapse.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#405I 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…
Also you used to be able to hover over a commit and see the full commit message. That doesn't seem to work anymore.
Overall, seems like change for the sake of change. Boo.
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#406Lots of hate here. I probably don't use GitHub as much as others here, so I can understand that any change adds friction and people are going to hate that. Having said that, I'm comparing using the Wayback Machine: new: https://github.com/torvalds/linux old: https://web.archive.org/web/20200619163555/https://github.co... and I can't find it in me to dislike the changes they've made. They've removed the double repo na…
Also fun to go back to a much earlier version: https://web.archive.org/web/20130807124247/https://github.co...
My favorite version of Github, is 2017... buttons looked like buttons and simplicity was embraced
https://web.archive.org/web/20170924075025/https://github.co...
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#407My only suggestion in to move the Sidebar to the left when viewing a repository's files/commits, or at least give us the option to do so, which is easily doable by injecting custom CSSs into the page using Stylus btw.
Everything looks great so far, so kudos for everyone involved.
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#408Needed Dark Mode as well
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#409I don't mind the aesthetic design changes but the layout drives me crazy. I count 4 separate alignments in the new repo page on my 15" macbook's full width browser window!
I found and modified a Firefox user style to fix the alignment for wide windows.
Original mozilla userstyle: https://gist.github.com/healingbrew/acc65ad439379eabdbb276e8...
Modified stylish chrome extenstion userstyle: https://gist.github.com/montanaflynn/ca64cc0fcf55bcd4556a016...
I use this regex so it doesn't apply on the full width logged in homepage or /notifications:
https:\/\/github\.com/(?!notifications)(.+)
Before: https://imgur.com/3ogzYhI After: https://imgur.com/8zMwTLL
Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
#410I don't like the clone button is now a big ugly pill button. I will probably get used to it, but damn you github UX designers, fixing what ain't fucking broke. You should use your fucking creative brains for real problems, PLEASE!!!