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Would you mind clarifying that for me? We definitely do not intend to do that in any way possible. For example, here is my profile page, logged out: http://sha

by kneath 17y ago

Would you mind clarifying that for me? We definitely do not intend to do that in any way possible. For example, here is my profile page, logged out: http://share.kyleneath.com/captures/kneath_s_Profile_-_GitHub-20100207-181426.jpg http://share.kyleneath.com/captures/kneath_s_Profile_-_GitHu... There shouldn't be any excess GitHub branding apart from the obvious bits (header, footer, terminology).

freetard 17y ago
On your screenshot I see two links for login and pricing on the header and right down to it.
- aaronbrethorst 17y ago
  Your username is rather priceless in the current context, btw :) Rackspace costs money. Servers cost money. Bandwidth costs money. Salaries cost money. There's nothing shameful about asking users for money. Putting a 'Sign Up' button or two on the page is just good design. Would you prefer they buried a PayPal donation button on their About page? I'm also curious about why jrockway thinks a Sign up button is underhanded. Maybe if there was some sort of bait and switch involved, I might see their point. But, the 112x23px button pretty clearly says "Pricing and Signup". Of the 920px x 3783px of content on kneath's profile page, that 112x23px represents 0.07402% of the page. Plus, it may be your profile page. But it's your profile page on Github's server. If you don't like it, why not build a custom HTTP front end to your privately maintained git repos?
  - vulf 17y ago
    Users can add a pledgie donate button to their repos: http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary Looks like it's bigger than that signup button too...
jrockway 17y ago
There used to be a pop-over when visiting a repository when not logged in. Perhaps that was changed recently (within the last week), because I can't reproduce it from my home machine.

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Would you mind clarifying that for me? We definitely do not intend to do that in any way possible. For example, here is my profile page, logged out: http://sha

by kneath 17y ago

freetard 17y ago
On your screenshot I see two links for login and pricing on the header and right down to it.
- aaronbrethorst 17y ago
  Your username is rather priceless in the current context, btw :) Rackspace costs money. Servers cost money. Bandwidth costs money. Salaries cost money. There's nothing shameful about asking users for money. Putting a 'Sign Up' button or two on the page is just good design. Would you prefer they buried a PayPal donation button on their About page? I'm also curious about why jrockway thinks a Sign up button is underhanded. Maybe if there was some sort of bait and switch involved, I might see their point. But, the 112x23px button pretty clearly says "Pricing and Signup". Of the 920px x 3783px of content on kneath's profile page, that 112x23px represents 0.07402% of the page. Plus, it may be your profile page. But it's your profile page on Github's server. If you don't like it, why not build a custom HTTP front end to your privately maintained git repos?
  - vulf 17y ago
    Users can add a pledgie donate button to their repos: http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary http://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary Looks like it's bigger than that signup button too...
jrockway 17y ago
There used to be a pop-over when visiting a repository when not logged in. Perhaps that was changed recently (within the last week), because I can't reproduce it from my home machine.