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Re: New Homepage

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Post by zimbatm »

eddieroger wrote: post #10

I 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.

How many private repos do you need ? I just have one private incubator repo that contains all the throw-aways and ideas that I have. If something grows well enough I export the subtree into a public repo and voila.

Also limiting the number of private repos makes sense for Github since they also want to build a community.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by jeremymcanally »

franze wrote: post #24
leviathant wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To play the pedant, they haven't completely gotten rid of Octocat - check out the favicon.

if the only place where you display your most popular visual brand element is the footer and the favicon, you are doing it wrong.

We've never had an Octocat on the home page, actually.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by state »

marknutter wrote: post #30

There's a fine line you can cross with minimalist design where it suddenly feels cold, generic, and frail. And I believe Github has crossed this line with this new homepage. I also echo some other's lamentations that Octocat is gone. It's just not.. fun.

I always found all of those 'fun' elements of GitHub to be sort of patronizing. It took extra effort for me to get past all of that 'fun' gloss to appreciate what a powerful tool it could be.

That's what makes design so challenging. Both you and I want to use the product and have legitimate but different tastes. New homepage looks like an improvement to me.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by pserwylo »

cgislason wrote: post #34

I wanted to compare the old and new pages, but noticed that their robots.txt disallowed the wayback machine from caching it. Also, the Octocat was not on the page that Google cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SZgkdCZ...

Wow, it just occurred to me that I never see the github home page when I visit the site, seeing as I'm always logged in on the machines I use.

Compared to that cached version, I much prefer the new one. This is despite agreeing and lamenting that there is nothing particularly fun about it. But hey, I'm not even sure what I mean by that :)

Re: New Homepage

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Post by why-el »

46Bit wrote: post #22

GitHub is awesome, but why so many upvotes for a homepage redesign? EDIT: Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?

Haha, interesting edit. :) I think the reason is that people are expecting a discussion of these kinds of decisions (Reverting back to a minimalist design, how to AB test maybe, and so on), and since GitHub is known to pretty much everybody, its the perfect chance to do so. Or at least this is why I came here.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by bjustin »

bretthellman wrote: post #3

I love GitHub but the new homepage makes GitHub feel like a small, seed funded startup & not a trusted company.

I saw it and immediately thought "Bootstrap". The large width top item, followed by three columns with graphics followed by text, is like the Bootstrap site itself[1] and many others which use Bootstrap. I do like the new homepage, whereas I felt that the old one was overwhelming.

[1] http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Re: New Homepage

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Post by nigelsampson »

peterjmag wrote: post #4

I've been finding Proxima Nova[1] everywhere this year. I'm not complaining though—I think it's a beautiful, highly readable typeface. [1] https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova

I'm using it on my website as it seems one of the closer ones to Segoe for "metro" style websites.

Re: New Homepage

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Post by markdotto »

marknutter wrote: post #30

There's a fine line you can cross with minimalist design where it suddenly feels cold, generic, and frail. And I believe Github has crossed this line with this new homepage. I also echo some other's lamentations that Octocat is gone. It's just not.. fun.

The last version of our homepage never had an Octocat on it :).
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