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Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-hon

Looking at the screenshot I thought "Wow, I can see why Github would be annoyed at that" before realising that was their proposed not-at-all-like-github-now-honestly new UI. Their demo looks like they just stole Github's CSS templates.

Artemis2 11y ago
I had exactly the same reaction. There are more screenshots of their previous look in other posts: https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.12/new-github-ui.png https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-... (there's even "GitBucket now supports current GitHub UI" in the post?!) https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.11/branch-protection.png https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-... https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.6/pull_request.png https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-...
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- sheeshkebab 11y ago
  Not defending the ui aping, but GH css is open source: http://primercss.io/layout/ http://primercss.io/layout/ They should have kept it proprietary if their lawyers are touchy about liberal open source licenses. >Open source Available for use under the MIT license and built with open source projects like SCSS, Jekyll, Grunt, and more.
  - jerf 11y ago
    Open source covers the copyright. This is more a trademark issue. The trademark issue is independent of the copyright-openness of their assets, as it is not valid to infringe their trademark either with their assets, or with fully copyright-independent assets.
    - stingraycharles 11y ago
      This is correct and highlighted by the fact that Github doesn't focus on the CSS at all -- their claim would have been exactly the same if they did not copy anything and wrote everything from scratch. It's about trademark and user confusion, not copyright.
- FiloSottile 11y ago
  The first URL is gitbucket[.]github[.]io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.12/new-github-ui.png, just saying.
carlosdp 11y ago
Yea I double checked the date to make sure this wasn't an April Fools, it looks exactly like Github...
91bananas 11y ago
For what it's worth, Github open sourced much of their CSS http://primercss.io/ http://primercss.io/
- 2pointsomone 11y ago
  Well, this reminds of the Microsoft Office UI (I think its called Ribbon?). I think the rule around that is that people can make apps that mimic that UI EXCEPT in the case where the apps are direct competitors. Seems to be the case here too.
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  - philipodonnell 11y ago
    Fabric is the one I think : https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric
    - 2pointsomone 11y ago
      Na actually I am referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)
resoluteteeth 11y ago
Yeah, you could easily think you were looking at Github. I think it would be polite of them to change it a little bit more. Also, while it's natural for them to want to have a link to their Github account in the header of their site, as it is now (in combination with the extremely similar look) it almost makes them look like they are affiliated with Github.
- djsumdog 11y ago
  Yea, Gitlab and Bitbucket are pretty significantly different in look. Although those two were commercial entities that probably had the foresight to think about these issues. Gitbucket looks like it's independent devs just trying to create a clone in Scala. It would be pretty cool to have a github alternative in scala :-)
  - TallGuyShort 11y ago
    They also don't overtly describe themselves as Github clones. Slightly different goals: one tries to compete and aims to offer something superior, the other is intentionally a cheap knock-off (not intended to sound derogatory - there's a place for that).
ams6110 11y ago
Really any website that uses one of the major CSS templates (bootstrap, etc) looks pretty much the same. I see a dozen websites a day that all have the same fonts, button styles, layout, etc.
- godzillabrennus 11y ago
  This is still preferable over the travesty that was flash buttons people baked in Fireworks before the dawn of the flashless web.
goldbrick 11y ago
And Github looks like they're just using Bootstrap.
- lucassouza1 11y ago
  It's because Github's CSS toolkit is maintained[0] by the same creator of Bootstrap[1], @mdo. [0] http://primercss.io/about/ http://primercss.io/about/ [1] http://getbootstrap.com/1.0.0/#footer http://getbootstrap.com/1.0.0/#footer

Artemis2 11y ago

I had exactly the same reaction. There are more screenshots of their previous look in other posts: https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.12/new-github-ui.png https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-... (there's even "GitBucket now supports current GitHub UI" in the post?!) https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.11/branch-protection.png https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-... https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.6/pull_request.png https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-...

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sheeshkebab 11y ago
Not defending the ui aping, but GH css is open source: http://primercss.io/layout/ http://primercss.io/layout/ They should have kept it proprietary if their lawyers are touchy about liberal open source licenses. >Open source Available for use under the MIT license and built with open source projects like SCSS, Jekyll, Grunt, and more.
- jerf 11y ago
  Open source covers the copyright. This is more a trademark issue. The trademark issue is independent of the copyright-openness of their assets, as it is not valid to infringe their trademark either with their assets, or with fully copyright-independent assets.
  - stingraycharles 11y ago
    This is correct and highlighted by the fact that Github doesn't focus on the CSS at all -- their claim would have been exactly the same if they did not copy anything and wrote everything from scratch. It's about trademark and user confusion, not copyright.
FiloSottile 11y ago
The first URL is gitbucket[.]github[.]io/gitbucket-news/images/gitbucket-3.12/new-github-ui.png, just saying.

carlosdp 11y ago

Yea I double checked the date to make sure this wasn't an April Fools, it looks exactly like Github...

91bananas 11y ago

For what it's worth, Github open sourced much of their CSS http://primercss.io/ http://primercss.io/

2pointsomone 11y ago
Well, this reminds of the Microsoft Office UI (I think its called Ribbon?). I think the rule around that is that people can make apps that mimic that UI EXCEPT in the case where the apps are direct competitors. Seems to be the case here too.
- deleted 11y ago
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- philipodonnell 11y ago
  Fabric is the one I think : https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric
  - 2pointsomone 11y ago
    Na actually I am referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)

resoluteteeth 11y ago

Yeah, you could easily think you were looking at Github. I think it would be polite of them to change it a little bit more. Also, while it's natural for them to want to have a link to their Github account in the header of their site, as it is now (in combination with the extremely similar look) it almost makes them look like they are affiliated with Github.

djsumdog 11y ago
Yea, Gitlab and Bitbucket are pretty significantly different in look. Although those two were commercial entities that probably had the foresight to think about these issues. Gitbucket looks like it's independent devs just trying to create a clone in Scala. It would be pretty cool to have a github alternative in scala :-)
- TallGuyShort 11y ago
  They also don't overtly describe themselves as Github clones. Slightly different goals: one tries to compete and aims to offer something superior, the other is intentionally a cheap knock-off (not intended to sound derogatory - there's a place for that).

ams6110 11y ago

Really any website that uses one of the major CSS templates (bootstrap, etc) looks pretty much the same. I see a dozen websites a day that all have the same fonts, button styles, layout, etc.

godzillabrennus 11y ago
This is still preferable over the travesty that was flash buttons people baked in Fireworks before the dawn of the flashless web.

goldbrick 11y ago

And Github looks like they're just using Bootstrap.

lucassouza1 11y ago
It's because Github's CSS toolkit is maintained[0] by the same creator of Bootstrap[1], @mdo. [0] http://primercss.io/about/ http://primercss.io/about/ [1] http://getbootstrap.com/1.0.0/#footer http://getbootstrap.com/1.0.0/#footer