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GitHub is awesome, but why so many upvotes for a homepage redesign? EDIT: Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?
i assume you're just joking here, but it's a trend i've noticed on reddit: any comment or submission that has anything to do with voting, whether actual reddit votes or elections or anything else, gets more votes than something that doesn't reference voting. It reminds people to vote.
i 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…
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.
They don't need to market to developers anymore. Developers are going to be requesting approval from their bosses or purchasing managers to use github, and what the homepage needs to do is reassure the purchasers that github is a serious business.
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
Not just this year. Few years ago Mark Simonson, its creator, was the first type designer with balls big enough to let go of a tight control over PN's distribution and embrace its online use. Back then uttering "Cufon" or "embedding" on Typophile would give you strange looks at best and a flame war centered around lost profits and piracy at worst. He was also one of few designers to extensively hint fonts for on scre…
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/
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.
GitHub is awesome, but why so many upvotes for a homepage redesign? EDIT: Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?
>Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes? i assume you're just joking here, but it's a trend i've noticed on reddit: any comment or submission that has anything to do with voting, whether actual reddit votes or elections or anything else, gets more votes than something that doesn't reference voting. It reminds people to vote.
I know I'm going to be downvoted for this, but adding the expression "I know I'm going to be downvoted for this" is probably the easiest way to get upvotes on any social site. I guess it reminds people to vote, and most readers don't actually care to downvote you. (Usually comments will make "haters" really angry but not have any impact on people that agree or are neutral, so you get downvoted on a comment that most people like. "I know I'm going to get downvoted" causes the neutrals to realize that they need to upvote you to avoid the evil downvotes from the Other Clan. Or something.)
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>Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes? i assume you're just joking here, but it's a trend i've noticed on reddit: any comment or submission that has anything to do with voting, whether actual reddit votes or elections or anything else, gets more votes than something that doesn't reference voting. It reminds people to vote.
I think you're right. I know I'm going to be downvoted for this, but adding the expression "I know I'm going to be downvoted for this" is probably the easiest way to get upvotes on any social site. I guess it reminds people to vote, and most readers don't actually care to downvote you. (Usually comments will make "haters" really angry but not have any impact on people that agree or are neutral, so you get downvoted o…
