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Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by hiphopyo »

tomdale wrote: post #3

Huge thanks to DockYard for working on the design on this; it looks amazing! As an open source maintainer, one of the most valuable things people can contribute is great design. Not a lot of designers think to spend their spare time contributing to open source. If you work at a company with great designers and you ever notice they have some spare cycles, you can have a huge impact by helping them contribute to your f…

Congratulations! About time you started catching up to the likes of http://bower.io/ and http://rails-assets.org/.

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by berkes »

rb2k_ wrote: post #17
khangtoh wrote: post #15

Am I the only one that feels the color was just too glaring for my eyes? My eyes couldn't stand looking at the page for 5 secs.

Same here. Maybe "flux" adds to that?

I tried toggling redshift (An Open Source, Ubuntu-friendly alternative for flux) and it does make a little difference, but hardly enough to warrant the "glare".

Personally, I like it. Especially since the way I use rubygems makes me hardly ever land on the frontpage; all other pages are much "whiter".

Re: RubyGems.org Redesign

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Post by nilliams »

leftnode wrote: post #8
thejosh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No offence but even with the extremely bright colour scheme it was quite obvious.

Not with a smaller monitor. 13" rMBP and it took me a while to see it - it's obscured by the globe wireframe. https://picto.io/i/IatX8owh.png

Looks like you fall between a couple of sweet spots with the responsive design. If you reduce your browser width a bit more I'm guessing you see the brighter globe wireframe disappear and the search bar becomes more obvious?

They could probably fix this by throwing in some more media queries that do the same thing (toggle the brighter globe) but based on `min-height` rather than width-alone.

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