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the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.
I agree. The bubble UI is cutesy but otherwise completely useless. I'd say they should drop it altogether, and stick to the list UI as default.
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We recently thought about on how to do this as well and created our own Open Source page [1]. Not sure if we have done it right, but I quite like it. Happy to receive some feedback on it. It's nothing huge, nevertheless we're quite proud of what we've achieved. [1]: https://mobilejazz.com/products/opensource
This is nice, I like what you've done with the logos
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Errr,it's completely and totally unrelated to that. It's because we have tons of temps, vendors, and contractors, and don't want to have to owe them source code to internal systems. The other alternative (remember that google is a monorepo) would be to somehow police them differently. That is literally not worth the cost.
I don't see how having "some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary" is "completely and totally unrelated to" "not want[ing] to have to owe [someone/anyone] source code to internal systems"?
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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.
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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.
Firstly wayyy too much useless animation + distractions. This slows down every aspect of the interface making it annoying to use.
The default of showing just miniature icons of projects provides ZERO useful information. After clicking 'next' and waiting an eternity for the animation to finish, you are presented finally with some information, just a title and description.
In this mode there is no way to know when you've finished seeing all the projects in a category (no clear end).
The no ending is solved by changing the view to the grid based one. But guess what, grids fucking suck for text, they are good for images, we don't scan data grid by grid for sentences, this makes it insanely difficult to read, or skim - ie. read first four words, decide no interest in that particular project, now you have to keep moving your eyes right - which you would normally do if you're INTERESTED and since this is text, you're forced to look over more text from the project which you don't want - in a list view, your eyes go down to the next project, your brain has a clear new context.
And of course nowhere can you see latest commits, total commits, language etc. You know, stuff that matters.
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I don't see how having "some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary" is "completely and totally unrelated to" "not want[ing] to have to owe [someone/anyone] source code to internal systems"?
What's going on with the names of you all?
How about Free Software?
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