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No offense but that isn't a redesign, it is a gutted version that takes signal rich features out and makes Github much less usable. Signals like "number of rele
by NathanKP 8y ago
No offense but that isn't a redesign, it is a gutted version that takes signal rich features out and makes Github much less usable. Signals like "number of releases", "number of contributors", "languages used in the project", and "number of commits" are all important ways that people evaluate an open source project before adopting it.
This redesign even hides the "Insights" tab. Maybe that makes sense if you are someone who only ever pushes code, but if you are a user of open source, and doing something like trying to determine whether an NPM module is healthy, then one of the best signals available to you is to click on the repo for the module and check the "Insights" tab to see if it is actively maintained, if it is a one person project or a group effort, etc. Even if the project has no activity and therefore nothing to populate the "Insights" tab that is actually also an important signal that this project is probably kind of dead and if there are fixes that need to be made I'll have to do them myself.
- geoah 8y agoWould be interesting if users were allowed to customize the ui depending on their needs actually, even if that was client side. — the more I think about this the more certain I am that there must already be a chrome extension that does that.
- yoz-y 8y agoIn theory grease monkey, user scripts, custom css or even an ad blocker could be used to do that.
- rob_b 8y agoAgreed. The information presented currently serves a point. Removing items from the design for the sake of removing them is not efficient design. If anything, that is counterproductive. The presented design would be better received as a personal preference. The tone presented is I’m right and if you don’t recognize that then you’re wrong.