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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by brian-armstrong »

h3ll0k4ll3 wrote: post #435

The design before was targeting developers with a "for work" feel. From a vcs perspective and ci/cd perspective it showed the important stuff. The new file browser is especially bad - being Tritanopia color blind the lack of lines and the folders physically hurt my eyes. But To be honest we all know what this re-design is for. Microsoft pushing Azure Pipelines ( github actions ). The previous github interface was not…

What is an action? And is there really much risk of us using Azure? My code, like most I suspect, runs on linux/unixy things and probably doesn't even build on Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by brian-armstrong »

foobazzy wrote: post #377
jolmg wrote: post #134

Lots of hate here. I probably don't use GitHub as much as others here, so I can understand that any change adds friction and people are going to hate that. Having said that, I'm comparing using the Wayback Machine: new: https://github.com/torvalds/linux old: https://web.archive.org/web/20200619163555/https://github.co... and I can't find it in me to dislike the changes they've made. They've removed the double repo na…

Tangential comment: I just opened the link with the new design on my phone and it was a delight to look at compared to whatever I saw last time. I think the design changes were made keeping in mind smaller screens, which might be what the user data suggested (how am I to know). But I agree with other comments that the top bar content could be aligned with the rest of the content. Stretching it to each end is causing…

Surprisingly, most of us don't edit code on our phones.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by laumars »

greggman3 wrote: post #440

What do people feel about the code at the top (both old and new) The thing I think I want at the top is the readme. If I'm looking for repos I need to know what it is before I look at the code. If it's a repo I'm working on I'm more likely to look at the code locally then the code on github. When I do look at the code on github it doesn't need to be on the front page for me. https://github.com/username/reponame/code…

BitBucket follows this principle and it’s one of the main reasons I hate using BitBucket.

The vast majority of the time I arrive at a git repository is because I want the source.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by rapnie »

baby wrote: post #436
zacharycohn wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that it's on the right. It means when on mobile, I don't accidentally upvote something that I meant to collapse.

that's because HN on mobile is bad, not because it's good UI

The up / downvote arrows are too close together. Always have to pinch + zoom to upvote.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by Quelklef »

arrayjumper wrote: post #437

Using inspect, I did two things - - removed all the rounded edges - added lines dividing the rows in the files table It looks way better with these two things in my opinion. Maybe someone can create a browser extension which does these things.

You can use Stylish [0] to write custom per-site CSS!

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-the...

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by Quelklef »

redisman wrote: post #422

Well I can tell it's a Microsoft project now. Not in a good way. People almost never like re-designs so maybe it'll feel natural later, it's not terrible. Just sterile and corporate feeling.

Yeah. I think that the new layout is fine, but I really don't like that it doesn't look like GitHub anymore. It looks like every other modern UI out there.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by stinos »

jolmg wrote: post #134

Lots of hate here. I probably don't use GitHub as much as others here, so I can understand that any change adds friction and people are going to hate that. Having said that, I'm comparing using the Wayback Machine: new: https://github.com/torvalds/linux old: https://web.archive.org/web/20200619163555/https://github.co... and I can't find it in me to dislike the changes they've made. They've removed the double repo na…

Might also depend on how you use it. I have no repositories which I maintain on github worth speaking of, I only contribute, so 99% of time I spend in issue/PR views to which I go directly via links from notification emails.

While as pointed out above the decision of making the top navigation bar span the screen is rather unfortunate, the main thing I see is that instead of the smartphone-centered (or whatever reason) design the central part where the comments are shown is now like 50% wider. Which is something I always wanted because I only use this on desktop and usually with the browser full-screen so finally it takes some advantage of the available space.

However the width used also depends on whether the sidebar is there or not which is quite jarring. I.e. in the toplevel file tree view there's a sidebar. But when you then click on a directory the sidebar is gone and the witdh taken by the tree view expands. That's not ideal and just jarring when going back and forth. So for cases like that, it's not merely the fact there was a change which causes friction, it's really the new version which does.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

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Post by jlarocco »

I think it's great. It's about time they started using more of the available screen space. If I want a tiny view I'll shrink the window.

Since this seems to be such a contentious issue, I wonder why they didn't keep the original style around as an option? Aren't stylesheets supposed to make that easy?

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