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Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

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post #17

SSO is important for enterprise.. but github presents a challenge where devs usually have pre-existing personal accounts which are added to company github accounts, rather than the company account being used.

Personal accounts will work fine under the Business plan. You'll just need to hit your organization's IdP for access.

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#22
post #10

Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.

Not only that but why would you change the clean top bar? The dark one that is live for weeks now is worse than the old one.

That and the eye-seering blue draw too much attention for what they are. Content is de-emphasized. Whole page is slightly harder to read. I don't understand these changes at all.

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#23
post #12

Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.

I too thought I was going crazy when I noticed it this morning... Funny, but that shade (or one very much like it) is forever etched into my brain as "porn blue" thanks to a k10k issue back in the day when the internet was still referred to as the information super highway and nobody knew what we were doing. Here's an excerpt from the first "lesson": You must never use this colour. You can like it as much as you want…

2005 wasn't that long ago. I thought the press stopped using the term "information super highway" in the 90s. But in case thanks for share that, it was an amusing read.

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#24
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is for colourblind people.

Still doesn't make it look good. If thats an issue they could always have an optional setting to enable colorblind mode.

I think we should give it a few months to see if the fact that it doesn't look good is inherent to the color or just because we've become accustomed to it looking one way for so long. I can't count the number of interface redesigns I've seen in services I used that I hated at first and now I look back at the old design and can't fathom how I ever thought it was better.

And if colorblind people aren't inconvenienced (and don't have to navigate to a menu to de-inconvenience themself) then that's enough of a reason for me.

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#26
post #12

Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.

I too thought I was going crazy when I noticed it this morning... Funny, but that shade (or one very much like it) is forever etched into my brain as "porn blue" thanks to a k10k issue back in the day when the internet was still referred to as the information super highway and nobody knew what we were doing. Here's an excerpt from the first "lesson": You must never use this colour. You can like it as much as you want…

Oh man I forgot about K10k. Was an amazing site.

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#28

Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.

Here are the diffs for the two CSS files I found between yesterday and today in case anyone cares.

github.css: https://www.diffchecker.com/STyCXVyk framework.css: https://www.diffchecker.com/x1uMGh3h

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#29
post #17

SSO is important for enterprise.. but github presents a challenge where devs usually have pre-existing personal accounts which are added to company github accounts, rather than the company account being used.

That's what people used to do before because there were no good options to provision separate work accounts for people. With the new for business model I'm guessing we'll see people being issued work accounts and keeping their personal GitHub accounts completely separate, which might be a good thing.

Developers have the same identity no matter who they work for.

It makes sense to separate access ("this person has access to Example Corp's repos only as long as they work for Example Corp") from identity ("this person owns this account").

Introducing single-sign-on as one way to simplify login, and potentially as a second-factor for gaining access to repositories run by the business, makes sense. Making developers create entirely separate accounts doesn't.

Re: Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

#30
I would really just love to be able to group my repositories. Either logically in folders, or in another structure that cleans everything up. Tags help, but it is not enough.

I am happy that they continue to add features like this, but I feel like some of the more common wishlist items are not being addressed.

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