New Homepage

Post by markdotto » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 9:52 PM UTC

franze wrote: post #18

i 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…

Post by ippa » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 9:57 PM UTC

Post by silverbax88 » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

kenneth_reitz wrote: post #14

eddieroger wrote: post #10

I dig it. Looks nice and makes me want to use the service, but I can't get past the cost of the private repos. The unlimited, free, private repos are what keep me at BitBucket.

Sounds sustainable.

Post by squidsoup » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 10:16 PM UTC

state wrote: post #33

marknutter wrote: post #30

There'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.

I always found all of those 'fun' elements of GitHub to be sort of patronizing. It took extra effort for me to get past all of that 'fun' gloss to appreciate what a powerful tool it could be. That's what makes design so challenging. Both you and I want to use the product and have legitimate but different tastes. New homepage looks like an improvement to me.

Post by jlgreco » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 10:17 PM UTC

marknutter wrote: post #30

There'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.