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Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by alexboots »

erichocean wrote: post #20
bretthopper wrote: post #6

Check 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…

They forgot an important aspect of UI design: important info is never perceived as clutter by the user (from some page in 'Don't make me think')

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by phpnode »

tedivm wrote: post #31
erichocean wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I really, really miss the traffic graphs. Before I moved to github I had google analytics running for each of my projects, which was absolutely amazing for discovering when people talked about them. The increased contributions is worth the trade off, but I do miss that info.

a friend of mine built this which you might find useful: http://githalytics.com/

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by ocharles »

endeavor wrote: post #43
Harkins wrote: post #9

...how about some privacy controls? I'd really prefer not to advertise which users and projects I'm following or starring. Now I have Facebook trying to own and broadcast my personal life and GitHub trying to own and broadcast my professional one. Ugh.

I certainly understanding wanting to have control over what you want private. But stars and forks are the main things I use to evaluate a project I'm unfamiliar with. If a project has 1000 stars and 100 forks I know it's pretty solid. If those metrics were disabled by default Github loses a lot of value, since the majority of users would stick with the defaults.

The counter doesn't have to be private, but being able to view exactly what one person has starred should have a privacy control. We do this at MusicBrainz with 'subscriptions' (to be notified when something changes). We give a number of subscribers, and those with public subscriptions are explicitly listed: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/10adbe5e-a2c0-4bf3-8249-2b4cbf...

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by [deleted] »

caseorganic wrote: post #35

Why do great websites always feel compelled to redesign? Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook etc. It is very unsettling. The equivalent of someone coming into you home when you're not there and changing the entire floorplan, then expecting you to be elated when you come back at night, instead of confused and disoriented when all of the cupboards seem larger than they appear.

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Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by agilebyte »

Not happy with the change. More whitespace, but harder to see what is going on. I would like:

- to see the activity of all repos at a glance, not just on hover - visually pick out repos that are predominantly in one language over another

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by damncabbage »

damncabbage wrote: post #18

It 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…

Asked @holman about the blue (https://twitter.com/holman/status/248690023887675392):

  @damncabbage: @holman Was the removal of the blue from
  the repo commit timeline bar-graphs intentional? Update
  looks good, by the way. :)

  @holman: @damncabbage definitely. Blue behind text
  would be really distracting.

  @damncabbage: @holman Hmm, point. What about having
  the blue appear when the timeline fades in on hover,
  or just a darker shade of grey?

  @damncabbage: @holman The post over at HN has a few 
  reasons why some of us are a bit blue about the
  missing, uh, blue in the graphs:
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4546703 

  @holman: @damncabbage We’re pretty pleased with it.
(??? Confused about that last one.)

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by asg »

damncabbage wrote: post #18

It 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…

The primary workflow promoted by github seems to be to fork (using github's sense of the word) and use pull requests to contribute. This workflow, I imagine gets you to spend more time on the site, as opposed to using github simply as an ssh endpoint. This workflow also seems to be the biggest complaint about github by hardcore git users.

The change then looks to be simply an effort to highlight the workflow they want you to use.

I must however note that any effort to shout conspiracy should be tempered by the fact that github makes its money by selling private repos, so the above change, while reinforcing their suggested workflow, does not necessarily benefit them directly.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by scribu »

machrider wrote: post #19

I 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.

It's pretty easy to tell if you're a "python hacker" or a "C hacker" etc. with a quick glance over your repos and their descriptions.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by pessimism »

The profile is a real improvement (although it might be preferable to fit more repos into a smaller space?), but the public activity stream still seems as hopeless as before. I pointed out some reasons with pictures for the older version, but the points still apply: http://pygm.us/RFLFk4nt.
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