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Github redesigns Profiles
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Re: Github redesigns Profiles
#22Github are absolutely killing it right now. Seems like everyday there's a new HN submission about a cool new Github feature or redesigned aspect. The new profile design is nice, but seems more emphasis has been placed on users who own repos as opposed to contributing to other repos.
Still needs a space to add in a brief bio though considering Github is considered to be the new age developer resume.
Re: Github redesigns Profiles
#23Github are absolutely killing it right now. Seems like everyday there's a new HN submission about a cool new Github feature or redesigned aspect. The new profile design is nice, but seems more emphasis has been placed on users who own repos as opposed to contributing to other repos. Still needs a space to add in a brief bio though considering Github is considered to be the new age developer resume.
The frontpage posts recently have been about site-wide GitHub outages (twice), plus their blog post about how it happened.
Not exactly "killing it", unless I misunderstood you...
Re: Github redesigns Profiles
#24I get the whole big icon small icon thing for the feeds, and it looks great when they're in sequence with others of the same size, but when it's mixed it looks really bad IMHO. I'm no design pro so I dont know what a good solution would be but it throws things off
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#25It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me: - Now "owning" a repo seems even more important. Regularly commit to someone else's repo? Not evident unless you go digging for it. - The timeline bar-graph used to show blue for your own commits and grey for other people's. Now it either looks like you did all the work (your own repo), or someone else did it (forked repos). Even if these two don't matte…
They've also removed the "traffic" graph, that showed you how many people have viewed your project over the last 90 days or so (I can't remember the exact amount). That was a very useful way to gauge interest.
Honestly, IMO, GitHub has been getting worse, not better, since the spring. I have no idea why, but they're taking away features -- perhaps to speed up the site?
Anyway, I don't get it. They dropped their "social coding" motto awhile back, perhaps they're targeting other things now? Maybe they had to scale back features to raise that $100 million? It's a mystery.
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#26I still can't write a blurb about myself. I'd really like to see that, since (for a lot of people) Github is starting to be the geek resume.
+1 That's a really good idea, I'm kind of surprised it hasn't been there from the start.
Re: Github redesigns Profiles
#27It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me: - Now "owning" a repo seems even more important. Regularly commit to someone else's repo? Not evident unless you go digging for it. - The timeline bar-graph used to show blue for your own commits and grey for other people's. Now it either looks like you did all the work (your own repo), or someone else did it (forked repos). Even if these two don't matte…
They've also removed the "traffic" graph, that showed you how many people have viewed your project over the last 90 days or so (I can't remember the exact amount). That was a very useful way to gauge interest. Honestly, IMO, GitHub has been getting worse, not better, since the spring. I have no idea why, but they're taking away features -- perhaps to speed up the site? Anyway, I don't get it. They dropped their "soci…
Yeah, the removal of the graph sucks.
Call me silly, but I really liked that graph .. it gave me a little boost of pride to bring up my github page and see the effect of a burst of hacking activity in visual form. Obviously the info's still around in the commit logs, but it seemed much more obvious in the graph.
I guess computing the graph did probably consume CPU time, but isn't that exactly the sort of thing that differentiates github from a "dumb" git repo provider?
Re: Github redesigns Profiles
#28It looks very nice, but there's a couple of things that bug me: - Now "owning" a repo seems even more important. Regularly commit to someone else's repo? Not evident unless you go digging for it. - The timeline bar-graph used to show blue for your own commits and grey for other people's. Now it either looks like you did all the work (your own repo), or someone else did it (forked repos). Even if these two don't matte…
I'm seeing forks just as prominently as "owned" repos, so I don't see the problem.
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#29I am not crazy about the new design. It actually feels less designed to me.
Particularly I don't like that the activity is now hidden on profile pages. I often like to look at people's activity, and it bothers me that it is an extra click away every time now.
I miss the blue to distinguish your own commits from commits by other users.
Information that used to be available right on top such as organizations, and people the user is following are now harder to find or below the fold (on my macbook air 11").
Also now that the filters on top have more emphasis (All, Public, Private, etc) I think they should remove ones that are not useful. For example I don't have any private repos or mirrors so I feel like there shouldn't be links to empty pages, but this is a minor detail.
On top of that I think the page itself has a bit too much white space. It feels a bit plain to me.
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#30Check your dashboard/News Feed. Also featuring a new design right now.
And it's awful. I used to be able to see the description about a repository someone I follow had starred, and it was easily my best way to find out about interesting projects. Now, all you see is username/repositoryname, which is damn near useless. They replaced actual content with...whitespace. I don't know how they screwed this one up so badly, but they need to change it back to being socially useful again, and pro…
Really? We had to jump to "awful" for missing that one feature? Don't get me wrong, it sounds awesome and like something they should definitely add back in... but really? "Awful"!?
Our language is being diluted.