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Besides the points addressed by my colleague, we _absolutely_ want to make hosted project easier to discover and developer pages more attractive. Right now, Gi

Besides the points addressed by my colleague, we _absolutely_ want to make hosted project easier to discover and developer pages more attractive. Right now, GitLab.com is slow [0] and the interface is a little bland [1]. The features to support open source projects are there (I'd say, but please let me know what we miss), it's a matter of iteration before we should really be the preferred option. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59 [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/24304 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/24304

pawadu 10y ago
I appreciate your work, and I see that the site has improved a lot since last time I visited it! I also noted that some of my complaints have already been addressed (well, at least by gitlab. bitbucket not so much) I have two suggestions regarding discoverability: when I visit a developers homepage I normally want to see his bio and his projects, not his latest commits (which is the current landing page). I assume the former is also more cache friendly and less expensive to generate for gitlab. Furthermore, on github when I find a great developer I always look who they follow and sometimes also who follows them. This together with the star system is a great discovery tool (although it also fills your start page with endless commit messages from other people). Something similar to this but more automated and less noisy would be highly appertained.
tedmiston 10y ago
I don't technical limitations are really the reason (I'm a GitLab fan and have observed GitLab's product accelerating much faster than GitHub's). It's just that the community has been established on GitHub for so many years.
- johnnydoebk 10y ago
  I don't think it has something to do with the community. But rather that GL and BB are losing to GH in terms of UI / UX. Well, at least I wanted to switch to GL long ago, but couldn't due to unsatisfaction by their user interface.
  - tedmiston 10y ago
    They have been changing the UI quite a bit and GL has changed significantly feature wise too in the past 12 months. It might be worth another look.
johnnydoebk 10y ago
Please do something with the fixed header on [1], it wastes 15-20% of screen space on every device that doesn't have at least 1920x1168 resolution. That's not cool. And it would be great to decrease the content block's width to something like 75-80%. Just like GH, HN, millions of other websites, and even BB. [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com

pawadu 10y ago

I appreciate your work, and I see that the site has improved a lot since last time I visited it! I also noted that some of my complaints have already been addressed (well, at least by gitlab. bitbucket not so much) I have two suggestions regarding discoverability: when I visit a developers homepage I normally want to see his bio and his projects, not his latest commits (which is the current landing page). I assume the former is also more cache friendly and less expensive to generate for gitlab. Furthermore, on github when I find a great developer I always look who they follow and sometimes also who follows them. This together with the star system is a great discovery tool (although it also fills your start page with endless commit messages from other people). Something similar to this but more automated and less noisy would be highly appertained.

tedmiston 10y ago

I don't technical limitations are really the reason (I'm a GitLab fan and have observed GitLab's product accelerating much faster than GitHub's). It's just that the community has been established on GitHub for so many years.

johnnydoebk 10y ago
I don't think it has something to do with the community. But rather that GL and BB are losing to GH in terms of UI / UX. Well, at least I wanted to switch to GL long ago, but couldn't due to unsatisfaction by their user interface.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  They have been changing the UI quite a bit and GL has changed significantly feature wise too in the past 12 months. It might be worth another look.

johnnydoebk 10y ago

Please do something with the fixed header on [1], it wastes 15-20% of screen space on every device that doesn't have at least 1920x1168 resolution. That's not cool. And it would be great to decrease the content block's width to something like 75-80%. Just like GH, HN, millions of other websites, and even BB. [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com