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> You can find the nascent but growing list of publicly listed projects here: https://gitlab.com/explore https://gitlab.com/explore Gitlab often comes up in th

by dwc 11y ago

> You can find the nascent but growing list of publicly listed projects here: https://gitlab.com/explore https://gitlab.com/explore Gitlab often comes up in these discussions. Ok, it comes up every time. Several times in the past I've went and checked it out and it seems interesting except...I couldn't find any actual projects from the main gitlab.com page, aside from the gitlab CE repo itself. So thanks for posting that link! I have to wonder why it's not more prominent. And where's the search to find repos? I regularly find useful repos on github by searching for them. Discoverability is important to me.

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vram22 11y ago
>Discoverability is important to me. Quite a good point. I think, as techies, many of us focus more on the work itself, and not so much on explaining it or making it more discoverable, understood, and on showing its benefits (at least from the point of view of end-users). (As they say about product marketing - explain the benefits, not the features - though I guess that is not to be taken literally, of course the features should be explained too.). I know I need to do more work in this area myself, and am working on it.
- sytse 11y ago
  We also have a long way to go here and if someone wants to help please apply for the Product Marketing Manager role at https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/ https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
sytse 11y ago
The explore link was visible from our sign in page but I agree we can do better. I made it visible in the top menu of our static website with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/eaba29f48030c46b0208e25d3b9bf825fcb66ad9 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/eaba29f4... I'm not sure if we will keep it, that will also depend on how many people click on it. On https://gitlab.com/explore https://gitlab.com/explore there is a search field, for an example search please see https://gitlab.com/explore?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter_projects=f-droid https://gitlab.com/explore?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter_projects=f-...
- dwc 11y ago
  > The explore link was visible from our sign in page I had clicked through to a fair number of pages, but not finding any repos I wasn't prepared to sign up, so I missed the repos ;-) > I made it visible in the top menu of our static website Quite visible now. I'd guess that if it had been there before I would have clicked on it. Time will tell if it makes a difference. Best wishes.
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thanks!

by dwc 11y ago

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vram22 11y ago

>Discoverability is important to me. Quite a good point. I think, as techies, many of us focus more on the work itself, and not so much on explaining it or making it more discoverable, understood, and on showing its benefits (at least from the point of view of end-users). (As they say about product marketing - explain the benefits, not the features - though I guess that is not to be taken literally, of course the features should be explained too.). I know I need to do more work in this area myself, and am working on it.

sytse 11y ago
We also have a long way to go here and if someone wants to help please apply for the Product Marketing Manager role at https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/ https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

sytse 11y ago

The explore link was visible from our sign in page but I agree we can do better. I made it visible in the top menu of our static website with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/eaba29f48030c46b0208e25d3b9bf825fcb66ad9 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/eaba29f4... I'm not sure if we will keep it, that will also depend on how many people click on it. On https://gitlab.com/explore https://gitlab.com/explore there is a search field, for an example search please see https://gitlab.com/explore?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter_projects=f-droid https://gitlab.com/explore?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter_projects=f-...

dwc 11y ago
> The explore link was visible from our sign in page I had clicked through to a fair number of pages, but not finding any repos I wasn't prepared to sign up, so I missed the repos ;-) > I made it visible in the top menu of our static website Quite visible now. I'd guess that if it had been there before I would have clicked on it. Time will tell if it makes a difference. Best wishes.
- sytse 11y ago
  Thanks!