Twitter launches new GitHub page

#1

Post by maccman » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 10:26 PM UTC

Twitter launches new GitHub page
twitter.github.com

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#2

Post by alexwolfe » Mon, Jan 30, 2012, 11:52 PM UTC

The colored triangles are a nice "at a glance" way to see what language the library is for.

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#3

Post by DanielRibeiro » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 12:01 AM UTC

Very pleasant design. Also, it would be nice to be able to see thenumber of viewers/watchers. Maybe just on hover.

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#4

Post by asktell » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 12:09 AM UTC

Nice. I like the occasional bird flying across the background. Would be nice to make the layout responsive with Twitter Bootstrap 2.

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#5

Post by ryanfitz » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

alexwolfe wrote: post #2

The colored triangles are a nice "at a glance" way to see what language the library is for.

I was confused by what the different colored triangles meant, at first I thought it was perhaps some sort of build status indicator. Adding a key about the different colors might be nice to have.

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Post by alexwolfe » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 12:26 AM UTC

ryanfitz wrote: post #5

alexwolfe wrote: post #2

The colored triangles are a nice "at a glance" way to see what language the library is for.

I was confused by what the different colored triangles meant, at first I thought it was perhaps some sort of build status indicator. Adding a key about the different colors might be nice to have.

Agreed, a key would be nice.

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#7

Post by pcmyers » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 12:30 AM UTC

I'm no design expert, but I find this extremely appealing. I would not mind sitting and browsing through all the different projects (which is hopefully the goal of the design). My emotional reaction to the site is very different than most Github pages, which have a reaction (possibly Pavlovian) that goes "Get back to work!"

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#8

Post by sek » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 12:34 AM UTC

Scala will be the new big thing, even companies like IBM and SAP are using it now. But to be really comparable to Java/C++ it will take a decade.

Twitter is very good here, they have a not so enterprisey brand and will improve popularity in the startup community.

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#9

Post by mceachen » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 1:00 AM UTC

Super secret easter egg:

http://twitter.github.com/?larry=25

(Shh! Secret!)

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#10

Post by hammerdr » Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 1:05 AM UTC

It appears that Twitter is the source for all of these projects, which is not the case. About 14 of the projects are forks of other repositories on GitHub. Many of the project descriptions include references to their parent projects but it would be nice to see them show it is a Twitter fork and not the main repo.