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Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by thejosh »

yuvadam wrote: post #50

More change for the sake of change from Github. Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance. Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not co…

I like to play a game called "When I wake up tomorrow, will github have changed?"

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by zachinglis »

yuvadam wrote: post #50

More change for the sake of change from Github. Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance. Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not co…

Less information? I can now understand people's projects far quicker, and read information about them far quicker.

As both a designer, and a programer, neither side of me has complaints. It's much cleaner and very much a step in the right direction.

Just because you're not fumbling to say what a beautiful new change it is, I am betting without realising it will make your life easier.

People don't like change.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by jschuur »

cobychapple wrote: post #36
craigc wrote: post #29

I 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 peopl…

It actually feels less designed to me. Some would say that less design is a good thing, for the same reasons less code is a good thing.

The equivalent to 'less code' is more likely to be 'less pixels' rather than 'less design'. Design isn't neccesarily just excess flourish.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by damncabbage »

asg wrote: post #58
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 wan…

The primary workflow promoted by github seems to be to fork (using github's sense of the word) and use pull requests to contribute.

I agree, I'm definitely not disputing that.

With the removal of the blue from the commit timelines, the profile of someone who forks and commits to a bunch of popular projects (eg. Rails, jQuery, MiniTest) now looks the same the profile of someone who just forks a bunch of projects; you need to dig around a bit to tell the difference.

(I've been seeing an increasing trend of people who fork popular projects and don't do anything with them; I don't know if it's trying to fake activity on GitHub to look better when going for a job or what. Examples: https://github.com/chardy https://github.com/yanovitchsky https://github.com/VasyOk )

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by weslly »

thejosh wrote: post #61
yuvadam wrote: post #50

More change for the sake of change from Github. Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance. Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not co…

I like to play a game called "When I wake up tomorrow, will github have changed?"

That's why I love github :)

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by lbotos »

saiko-chriskun wrote: post #38

what's with all the negativity :P. the new design is waay better. I'm surprised they haven't updated it 'till now.

While I agree with you, the one thing I miss is the repo description on my news feed. Before I could have an at a glance view of what my friends were starring and hacking on without ever having seen it before. Now If I want to know what visionmedia/every, mattlong/hermes, or erichocean/blossom is I need to click through. It's not much, but it's definitely going to put an extra step in the filtering of signal vs. noise.

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by BinaryBullet »

yuvadam wrote: post #50

More change for the sake of change from Github. Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance. Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not co…

Here are a few userscripts that I find helpful on profile pages:

https://github.com/skratchdot/github-repo-filter-info.user.j...

https://github.com/skratchdot/github-repo-counts.user.js/

https://github.com/skratchdot/github-get-missing-description...

They don't address your stream comment, but one of my gripes is not being able to see repo counts when filtering, or having the option to fill in "repo descriptions" for older projects.

EDIT: I like the re-design and the fact Github is constantly evolving

Re: Github redesigns Profiles

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Post by revisionzero »

Im not really sure whats going on here. Github without a doubt is great, however, I'm not really sure how people like these changes. The UI and general flow is going from a concise, fairly simple site (design-wise) to a bloated feeling over-designed (useless icons, far to much white space, and removal of info) website.

This is concerning because its a sign of to much focus, going from x1 amount of resources to x10 means you risk over-developing what was great. You have too much time, to many resources, so you over develop things when they truly don't need any changes (at the time). The only saving grace here is they could be in the middle of a shift to a much larger vision, so these changes all seem poor until it all comes together in the following months. I have to ask though, why the shotgun approach to the updates then, they should take their time, once a week would be enough change for me, allow me to actually feel out the changes before adding more. =/

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