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#22GitHub is awesome, but why so many upvotes for a homepage redesign?
EDIT: Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?
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#23I'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
Yup! We use Proxima-Nova. It's probably the next Helvetica Neue (i.e. hipster designers will be rolling their eyes at you soon). One of the things that's great about it is there are so many variations: Regular, Light, Regular Italic, Light Italic, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Black, Semibold Italic, Bold Italic. Most other sans-serif typefaces we evaluated didn't have enough variation that it could reliably service any…
Agreed on the huge range of weights and styles. I experimented with almost all of them for http://peterjmags.com/ before settling on the current two for headings. Each variation that I tried had such a different impact on the overall design and "character" of my site. To me, that's the mark of a well-designed family of type.
And great work on the customer.io site! I was actually admiring it just yesterday after following your link in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912268
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#24i 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.
if the only place where you display your most popular visual brand element is the footer and the favicon, you are doing it wrong.
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#25I'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 screen use _in smaller sizes on Windows_. PN was basically the first non-OS font that looked great on Windows in 11px. The last contributing factor was that in all caps PN looked very close to Gotham, but it was also few times cheaper. If you ever looked at Gotham, you know how well it works as a heading font. And PN was the only online-friendly alternative.
In other words, the position that Proxima Nova enjoys now is directly related to the liberal license that Mark released it under and the hard and focused work he put into polishing it for the online use. Props to him.
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#26I wish they would make their stuff look better on mobile.
I guess I'm the only sick person who looks at code while in my bed on my iPhone. I really should read a book instead.
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#27I love GitHub but the new homepage makes GitHub feel like a small, seed funded startup & not a trusted company.
Got the same gist (harhar). With all of the super user-friendly updates they've been pushing out lately, this homepage makes it look like a service those types of people wouldn't think of using. And it is boringly Bootstrap-y looking.
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#28I love GitHub but the new homepage makes GitHub feel like a small, seed funded startup & not a trusted company.
It looks practically the same as dropbox & basecamp homepages to me, to use other examples of massive behemoths in the new wave of successful startups.
To me, it certainly doesn't look un-trust worthy and is better than 99.99% of home pages. What do you consider a 'trusted company' look? Be interesting to link some examples! Always fascinating to see how massively taste makes a difference. I don't want to put words into your mouth, but is Salesforce's homepage a trusted company look?
I'm not even a github fanboy, I think their interface still needs a lot of work and has a lot of massive annoyances (e.g. showing commit messages next to files and folders, bloody awful UX choice IMO, so confusing). And I still don't get the point of the command bar/search uselessness. Google searches github a lot better than they do thanks. And Reddit. And Hacker News. And Stackoverflow. So much wasted programming time making useless search systems, so annoying the Chrome bizarrely tries to actually use those search systems.
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#29Finally, that old homepage was an abomination.
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#30There'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.