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Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#41

Post by pessimism »

The new design is really great and in many ways better than GitHub’s. Now people unfamiliar with the services might actually be able to find a download button for once.

Another place where GitHub is really dropping the ball is in the social aspect of their service with terrible activity feeds I can’t believe anyone actually uses. I wrote a rant about it here: http://pygm.us/uGhNdcGU.

There are many, many ways Bitbucket can beat—and beats—GitHub, so this new design makes me a lot more optimistic about the continuing competition between the two and the improvements this will result in on both sides.

I will say that I’m not sure whether I like a grey as dark as the one you use in your new design, though. :)

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#44

Post by cutie »

pessimism wrote: post #41

The new design is really great and in many ways better than GitHub’s. Now people unfamiliar with the services might actually be able to find a download button for once. Another place where GitHub is really dropping the ball is in the social aspect of their service with terrible activity feeds I can’t believe anyone actually uses. I wrote a rant about it here: http://pygm.us/uGhNdcGU . There are many, many ways Bitbuc…

Do you mean that you wish they followed the fad of unreadable light grey on white text? No thanks. ;)

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#45

Post by hess »

notatoad wrote: post #27
bryanh wrote: post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

The free private repos are a lifesaver. They also just released a refer a friend program like dropbox. You can get up to 8 users for free. - http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/09/18/refer-a-friend-to-bitbu...

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#46

Post by Daegalus »

This is an amazing redesign. I love Bitbucket for its support for Hg and Git, and it has free private repos. Always loved using it, now I have more and more reason to use it every day. I might move back to it for my open-source stuff, and just push stuff to github as a side thing. Or setup a hook on Bitbucket to just push for me.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#47

Post by pessimism »

cutie wrote: post #44
pessimism wrote: post #41

The new design is really great and in many ways better than GitHub’s. Now people unfamiliar with the services might actually be able to find a download button for once. Another place where GitHub is really dropping the ball is in the social aspect of their service with terrible activity feeds I can’t believe anyone actually uses. I wrote a rant about it here: http://pygm.us/uGhNdcGU . There are many, many ways Bitbuc…

Do you mean that you wish they followed the fad of unreadable light grey on white text? No thanks. ;)

I just think the chosen background colour is a little too dark. Something about the colour (#F5F5F5?) is off to me.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#49

Post by cutie »

I like the new look in general, but one drawback is pretty clear. The readme is now narrow and can't expand. I like narrow columns in general, but now all of my 
 text is much too wide and showing scrollbars.  Lots of work ahead.  :(
I also see there is no whitespace around my h3s and not much around h1s, and h2s.  Looks quite cramped.  Still nicer on the whole.  I guess I can try to hack in some line breaks manually.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#50

Post by bbakersmith »

bvdbijl wrote: post #10
eblume wrote: post #5

I'm having trouble thinking of reasons why bitbucket is used so much less than github - or at least why it seems that way. It's looking pretty damn good to me right now!

Well, Github's UI used to be much better, now it's comparable. I do wonder why Bitbucket insists on having "overview" as the standard page to go to when visiting a repository, making Code the default would be a better idea IMHO. Also because more people use Github, more people are likely to start using it so they can fork their favorite projects

I don't mind this now that the README is displayed above the fold, a big improvement IMO.
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