Love the idea of someone tackling this space in Rust, but please just make a normal UI, I have no idea what I am looking at.
Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#32Would be interested in a comparison with https://sourcehut.org/ (which has a comparable minimal aesthetic, but also has the deep benefit of being FOSS.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#33I like the terminal aesthetics but please, for accessibility's sake, make input boxes look more like input boxes and buttons look like buttons.
thank you for the feedback, yeah i've been going and trimming a few places where i think my own tendencies have gone a bit too far. i will also say on accessibility, i recognize the site is a bit too small font in general — and will fix it soon.
Generally probably shouldn’t try to innovate in too many places at once
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#34It is ... problematic ... to lead with "anti-AI" and then bury terms like "judicious in our use of it" in the fine print. IMO a team like yours can either: * Use LLMs, in which case you aren't "anti-AI". * Not use LLMs currently, but the non-use is not due to following a principle, in which case you aren't "anti-AI". * Not use LLMs and promise never to do so. I'm happy you are trying something new. But you hurt yours…
yeah this has been pointed out a few times, will revise the copytext later but will keep it up for the duration of the post.
hope our sentiment is clearer in the comments that i've made, i think i've made the mistake of phrasing here with the "anti", i'll revisit it.
edit: dang has removed it, apologies for the confusion i caused, that was my mistake.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#35> 5. What features will gitdot not have? > AI. > We view AI as an implementation detail — and do not think that using it is necessarily good. > In fact, we think it makes many products worse by acting as a bandaid for poor design. > That isn’t to say we are blind to it, but that we will be judicious in our use of it instead. Not sure I follow. What feature are the developers referring to? I understand that AI will po…
That's not really anti-AI. Anti-AI would mean avoiding it as a value regardless of practicality. That sounds more like anti-enshittification.
AI is rapidly becoming a synonym for enshittification. It can be a little aggravating. I am trying to judiciously use terms like "agent" or "LLM" so I can avoid just lazily saying "AI", which is often a pejorative term now.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
thank you for the feedback, yeah i've been going and trimming a few places where i think my own tendencies have gone a bit too far. i will also say on accessibility, i recognize the site is a bit too small font in general — and will fix it soon.
Generally probably shouldn’t try to innovate in too many places at once
we are well aware and duly noted. thank you for the feedback
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#37I absolutely love the minimalist UI. I see code reviews is in the roadmap, I can't wait to try it.
Feels like one can just copy the UI and use it for forgejo. It would get something similar very quickly, and avoid handling all the difficult stuff I guess.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#38Seems interesting an I'll take more of a peek after work, but one thing that stood out to me is the only way back to the home page after navigating to a repo is the back button. Going back to the home page via the back button also doesn't retain that "new" was selected. But I agree with others, I do like the simplicity of the site.
this hn thread is interesting as it feels like i'm getting to revisit a lot of decisions i've made in the design haha. i debated this for a while too, some of my thinking for how it is is that i wanted the focus of a repository page to be _the repository_. so as much as we can, trim things that might detract. it was also done with the intention that it's actually pretty rare for a user to find or explore repositories…
I think I can understand that reasoning. I do have a tendency to explore, especially at the start since it gives me a view of what the site can already do, cause I wouldn't want to run into issues with my own projects without knowing of the possible limitations ahead of time.
If anything since the keyboard shortcut already exists, you could always put it in little cursor menu at the bottom of the screen. But yeah up to you, I look forward to your progress.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#39Seems interesting an I'll take more of a peek after work, but one thing that stood out to me is the only way back to the home page after navigating to a repo is the back button. Going back to the home page via the back button also doesn't retain that "new" was selected. But I agree with others, I do like the simplicity of the site.
this hn thread is interesting as it feels like i'm getting to revisit a lot of decisions i've made in the design haha. i debated this for a while too, some of my thinking for how it is is that i wanted the focus of a repository page to be _the repository_. so as much as we can, trim things that might detract. it was also done with the intention that it's actually pretty rare for a user to find or explore repositories…
I’m not sure I agree with all of your takes either. For example, I’m not anti-AI for coding, so that immediately made me click away. I’m glad I read the comments though because I think the take of “not using your code to train AI” makes a lot more sense.
But, I wanted to say thanks for posting this and being really open in the comments. It’s hard to get so much feedback so quickly. It’s a firehouse of criticism that’s hard to deal with.
You’re handling it well.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#40There is a dozen CLAUDE.md in the gitdot source. The "Anti-AI" in your title seems a bit disingenuous.