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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by microcolonel »

I guess the upshot of GitHub burning their design advantage is that I no longer have to justify that when using GitLab. As a relatively long-time GitLab user, my feedback every time they change the design (often for the worse, in the same way as GitHub has now done) has been “make it more like GitHub”. Now what do I point at? SourceHut?

I guess it is SourceHut actually; I think it could use a bit more texture/skeumorph on things like tabs and buttons, but it is so clean, especially since it uses my default sans serif font (which is condensed). There's just so much to do right, see: https://qui.suis.je/drop/sourcehut.png

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by jakebellacera »

somerandomacc wrote: post #23

Like many others, I use Github every day. Changes like this add friction to our workflow. There better be a damn good reason for these changes, otherwise it's a pointless redesign that looks no better than it did previously while simultaneously adding a slight overhead as users "learn" the new layout. Does anyone know of an option to revert this update?

I'm curious, what exactly has broken in your workflow? The biggest issue I see is that you are unable to see build status on a commit (above the file list), but otherwise nothing really has changed too much in my opinion.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by als0 »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #178
ljm wrote: post #126

I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator. When I'm browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit sho…

> the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator. Omitting the commit message is a net improvement to me; I've found that the commit message of the random commit that happens to be at top of tree is completely unhelpful for someone browsing the rep…

> If it hasn't passed CI and status checks, it shouldn't be in your default branch

The number of broken master branches I’ve seen on Github is astounding. So I find the CI status indicator to be very useful.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by rurp »

rowanseymour wrote: post #96
juliendc wrote: post #9

They are following the trends of flat design and rounded corners, which I don’t really mind. I’m more bothered by the fact that nothing is aligned: the GitHub logo, the breadcrumb, the horizontal menu and the issue title are all on different verticals. Looks messy.

We'll all get used to it, but it's harder now to see what is a button and what isn't, e.g. only 2 of these are clickable https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT

Wow, that's pretty bad. Logical consistency was clearly not a guiding principle of this redesign.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by feikname »

I think it's way more responsive, which is good.

Hoowever, the increased use of horizontal space makes it harder to read (imagine HN without the blank sides) and I believe the information density has been lost a notch way too much.

All in all I think I prefer the previous design because to me information readability comes first.

It actually becomes pretty decent if you zoom out to 80% in Firefox although the text becomes a tad too small. I believe making an extension to increase information density shouldn't be too hard.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by als0 »

ljm wrote: post #126

I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can't see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator. When I'm browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit sho…

There’s also the issue of the huge amount of white space within the files table. And the lack of centre alignment of the table.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by jomar »

pan69 wrote: post #190

Overall this design change doesn't matter to me. The only thing that really stands out and that annoys the hell out of me is the circular profile images. It looks completely out of place compared to all the other elements on screen, even their generated profile images don't fit in it correctly. It seems that this decision was made not from "add value" point of view but someone just really liked Instagram or the look…

I dislike large swathes of the new repository view, and I also especially dislike the circular profile images.

Fortunately it's easy to use a little custom CSS to revert them to square images, at least for now:

https://gist.github.com/jmarshall/a880c93725ee727abb54473582...

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by notdang »

matterhorn2000 wrote: post #187

Contrary to everyone else I really like the new design. The metadata is placed to the right as it should have always been. The languages are in the sidebar and are visible without me remembering that typescript is somewhat dark blue. Also the new look is more modern and unlike most people here I am not afraid of change.

Did you check it on mobile or desktop? I like the mobile version, however I dislike the desktop version with elements scattered all over the screen.
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