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Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in th

by chikei 10y ago

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

gordon_freeman 10y ago
the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  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.
  - euyyn 10y ago
    I could be improved by just not being constantly moving so you lose track of what you've explored and what you still haven't.
DannyBee 10y ago
Well, all of it only really helps you discover the featured ones, because the list was opt in. The total number is in the thousands.
- mikecb 10y ago
  I routinely click through the google and gcp orgs, and I hadn't seen quite a few of these, a couple of which I'd really like to use. Congrats!
  - willnorris 10y ago
    Thanks. What you said definitely exemplifies the problem we were trying to solve. People often look through one or two of our GitHub organizations, but don't realize that we actually have over 100 of them. Plus many of our projects aren't actually on GitHub (or at least only mirrored to GitHub). The goal of this directory was to help discover those projects.
znq 10y ago
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 https://mobilejazz.com/products/opensource
- orta 10y ago
  This is nice, I like what you've done with the logos
  - euyyn 10y ago
    They're very cute! And the effect is elegant and nice.
samfisher83 10y ago
There is an option make into a normal list its on the upper right hand side.
yeukhon 10y ago
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/ https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/ http://etsy.github.io/
- willnorris 10y ago
  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.
  - yeukhon 10y ago
    Okay that makes sense now. 2000 project is indeed no where easy to implement a nice interface. My two cents: perhaps display top and some random. Thx
  - Thrymr 10y ago
    If only there were some way to search such a vast number of project listings. Some type of engine, perhaps.
    - visarga 10y ago
      A "search ... engine" ? Noo. That would be too far out.
    - karussell 10y ago
      Maybe, if they do not find anything, they could use lucene ;)
  - zepolen 10y ago
    Fire the UX guy, the interface is terrible. 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.

by chikei 10y ago

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

gordon_freeman 10y ago

the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
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.
- euyyn 10y ago
  I could be improved by just not being constantly moving so you lose track of what you've explored and what you still haven't.

DannyBee 10y ago

Well, all of it only really helps you discover the featured ones, because the list was opt in. The total number is in the thousands.

mikecb 10y ago
I routinely click through the google and gcp orgs, and I hadn't seen quite a few of these, a couple of which I'd really like to use. Congrats!
- willnorris 10y ago
  Thanks. What you said definitely exemplifies the problem we were trying to solve. People often look through one or two of our GitHub organizations, but don't realize that we actually have over 100 of them. Plus many of our projects aren't actually on GitHub (or at least only mirrored to GitHub). The goal of this directory was to help discover those projects.

znq 10y ago

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 https://mobilejazz.com/products/opensource

orta 10y ago
This is nice, I like what you've done with the logos
- euyyn 10y ago
  They're very cute! And the effect is elegant and nice.

samfisher83 10y ago

There is an option make into a normal list its on the upper right hand side.

yeukhon 10y ago

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/ https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/ http://etsy.github.io/

willnorris 10y ago
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.
- yeukhon 10y ago
  Okay that makes sense now. 2000 project is indeed no where easy to implement a nice interface. My two cents: perhaps display top and some random. Thx
- Thrymr 10y ago
  If only there were some way to search such a vast number of project listings. Some type of engine, perhaps.
  - visarga 10y ago
    A "search ... engine" ? Noo. That would be too far out.
  - karussell 10y ago
    Maybe, if they do not find anything, they could use lucene ;)
- zepolen 10y ago
  Fire the UX guy, the interface is terrible. 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.