I find the lack of octocat disturbing.
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#12Cool. Too bad I've seen the Github [1] homepage only once, and will never have see it again. [1] - or any other authenticated service for that matter.
Homepages aren't designed to appeal to people who have already signed up for the service. At least in Github's case, the homepage is purely for marketing.
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#13I find the lack of octocat disturbing.
I find the trend of seeing every change Github or Bootstrap makes on the front page of HN even more disturbing.
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#14I dig it. Looks nice and makes me want to use the service, but I can't get past the cost of the private repos. The unlimited, free, private repos are what keep me at BitBucket.
Sounds sustainable.
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#15I find the lack of octocat disturbing.
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#16I find the lack of octocat disturbing.
Since the theme is "working together is better than working alone", a group of octocats holdings hands/tentacles together would be nice. The octocats should be varied sort of like the ones here: http://octodex.github.com/ (maybe to a lesser degree, but the effect will be diminished if they all look the same).
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#17I find the lack of octocat disturbing.
look at the footer
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#18i think it's stupid ... putting the apple, windows, android logo on the frontpage, getting rid of their own playful brand element(octocat) completely. oh, and on top of that adding two meaningles illustrations that can only be seen as an insult to any thinking developer.
as a person who is kinda proud of having octocat as one of two stickers on my mac i have to say: it sucks and i cant identify with it.
tl;dr: get rid of the apple/mac/android logos, bring octocat back.
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#19It still has no (prominent) search box on the homepage. Do I need to explain how dumb this is?
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#20i think it's stupid ... putting the apple, windows, android logo on the frontpage, getting rid of their own playful brand element(octocat) completely. oh, and on top of that adding two meaningles illustrations that can only be seen as an insult to any thinking developer. as a person who is kinda proud of having octocat as one of two stickers on my mac i have to say: it sucks and i cant identify with it. tl;dr: get ri…
To play the pedant, they haven't completely gotten rid of Octocat - check out the favicon.