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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by danudey »

zoomablemind wrote: post #535
tarboreus wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really hate the second column on the right, which for a long README or documentation does nothing but make it so that there's less room for the text. I frequently use GitHub to store and read notes or to create larger docs, this essentially kills my desire to do any of that and makes me want to move what I have. The information in that column is also extremely low value.

Also there's font-size party happening on the home's right sidebar. 16px, 14px, 12px in a rapid succession. Meanwhile, on Pull Requests' right side bar everything is rendered in 12px size. Just to be clear, 12px is equivalent of 9pt. That's fairly small on screen. For comparison the README body text is rendered in 16px, which is equivalent of 12pt. By the way, HN body text is 13.33px, about 10pt.

Weird design choices like this are why I've been setting minimum font sizes in my browser since the day the feature was added. It's a life saver, especially on high-resolution displays.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by danudey »

natfriedman wrote: post #284
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…

Thanks for the feedback about the latest commit status. This is something we should definitely fix. Also – I don't think there is a principle of lowering information density at work here. I think it's just a design that we will keep iterating. We are pro information density at GitHub.

FWIW, on a 1440p monitor, there's a huge amount of wasted/empty space, which means that the things that the space is used for should be pretty critical or it seems like a colossal waste overall.

Here's my input. Maybe it's useful? I don't know.

https://imgur.com/a/S9YRBq0

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by Siira »

natfriedman wrote: post #362
Firehawke wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a light sensitivity condition; large patches of white really hurt to look at for any real amount of time. Please consider implementing an optional dark variant in the vein of https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark as an option.

It's coming.

A Solarized-light style one (similar to HN's background) would also be nice. Text becomes blurred for me in dark mode, and the white backgrounds are too bright.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by antpls »

I don't have repo on GitHub, but the mobile version is better for me so far. It uses all the screen space, and now we can finally see the language bar (% of languages used in the repo) on mobile version, which wasn't possible before.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by retorquere »

It's fugly. I thought a plugin broke rendering on GH. This seems like a change for change's sake -- I don't see what this was supposed to accomplish.

Put back the "releases" link where it belongs for a start. And why is the code-issues-pullrequest etc left-aligned and the content it governs centered? How did this get out the door?

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by makecheck »

They need to get rid of the “sign up for GitHub” thing, which is especially egregious on mobile where it’s half of the initial screen. I hate having to scroll just to see things.

I’d imagine 99% of visitors are on GitHub but, like me, are not always logged in and I’m not going to when checking simple things.

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