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Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by willnorris »

yeukhon wrote: post #35
chikei wrote: post #12

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Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

Agree. Over use of animation. All these are good examples. If Google has 50+ projects, then it's best to just have a page with multiple rows, each row is a category, and upon click can expand down to what #3 looks like. Or perhaps just GitHub README... it's pretty nice to read. [1]: https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/

The problem is that we have over 2,000 projects, so simply listing them all on one page doesn't work very well. Hence why we built this directory, which allows browsing by category, by tag, by language, as well as full text search.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by willnorris »

mikecb wrote: post #40
DannyBee wrote: post #24

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Well, all of it only really helps you discover the featured ones, because the list was opt in. The total number is in the thousands.

I routinely click through the google and gcp orgs, and I hadn't seen quite a few of these, a couple of which I'd really like to use. Congrats!

Thanks. What you said definitely exemplifies the problem we were trying to solve. People often look through one or two of our GitHub organizations, but don't realize that we actually have over 100 of them. Plus many of our projects aren't actually on GitHub (or at least only mirrored to GitHub). The goal of this directory was to help discover those projects.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by jeffwilcox »

willnorris wrote: post #29
lnanek2 wrote: post #28

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Yeah, I immediately followed a bunch of links and found GitHub at the end and thought I could just ignore the new site. Some comments here claim not all the projects are on GitHub, though, some are hosted directly by Google. So maybe there's something else you could find on this new site and not find there.

The other problem is that we have 100+ GitHub organizations, so browsing them all together is impossible.

+100

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by yeukhon »

willnorris wrote: post #41
yeukhon wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. Over use of animation. All these are good examples. If Google has 50+ projects, then it's best to just have a page with multiple rows, each row is a category, and upon click can expand down to what #3 looks like. Or perhaps just GitHub README... it's pretty nice to read. [1]: https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/

The problem is that we have over 2,000 projects, so simply listing them all on one page doesn't work very well. Hence why we built this directory, which allows browsing by category, by tag, by language, as well as full text search.

Okay that makes sense now. 2000 project is indeed no where easy to implement a nice interface. My two cents: perhaps display top and some random.

Thx

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by Thrymr »

willnorris wrote: post #41
yeukhon wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. Over use of animation. All these are good examples. If Google has 50+ projects, then it's best to just have a page with multiple rows, each row is a category, and upon click can expand down to what #3 looks like. Or perhaps just GitHub README... it's pretty nice to read. [1]: https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/

The problem is that we have over 2,000 projects, so simply listing them all on one page doesn't work very well. Hence why we built this directory, which allows browsing by category, by tag, by language, as well as full text search.

If only there were some way to search such a vast number of project listings. Some type of engine, perhaps.

Re: A new home for Google Open Source

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Post by dluc »

the search filter seems to have some hard coded logic, preferring languages like R (4 projects [1]) over Scala (5 projects [2]). I wonder if that's based on trends or purely taste (or just cache :-)).

  [1] https://opensource.google.com/projects/search?q=%20&language=r
  [2] https://opensource.google.com/projects/search?q=%20&language=scala
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