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They are following the trends of flat design and rounded corners, which I don’t really mind. I’m more bothered by the fact that nothing is aligned: the GitHub l

They are following the trends of flat design and rounded corners, which I don’t really mind. I’m more bothered by the fact that nothing is aligned: the GitHub logo, the breadcrumb, the horizontal menu and the issue title are all on different verticals. Looks messy.

verdverm 6y ago
The grayscale reduction and loss of contrast is a modern design anti-pattern they have adopted. Makes reading things more difficult
rowanseymour 6y ago
We'll all get used to it, but it's harder now to see what is a button and what isn't, e.g. only 2 of these are clickable https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT
- rurp 6y ago
  Wow, that's pretty bad. Logical consistency was clearly not a guiding principle of this redesign.
  - roryokane 6y ago
    There is a consistent principle behind those choices: rectangles with slightly rounded corners are clickable, while rectangles with semicircular sides (“pills”) are not clickable. It's confusing because I've never seen another site that distinguishes clickable elements in that way, but I can imagine we'll grow to find it intuitive with enough usage.
    - rowanseymour 6y ago
      For sure we can all learn through trial and error pretty much any UI. And I know there are complaints any time any big site tries to do a redesign. But a good UI should be intuitive for a first time user. This seems objectively worse.
- RampBiggety 6y ago
  We will all get used to it all right. I use Arch Linux, free in every sense, and couldn't give a damn about OSX fuckeries. Get over your pussy free lives. Get arch linux-
amarshall 6y ago
This was among the first things I noticed. Here it is with vertical lines added https://i.imgur.com/EVSTdLA.png https://i.imgur.com/EVSTdLA.png
- anonfunction 6y ago
  I felt the same, and even made the same image with vertical lines in my feedback to GitHub while the change was still in the preview stage. I installed a custom css user style extension just to fix it. Here's a link to my comment with example before and after along with the CSS needed for chrome or firefox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292
enahs-sf 6y ago
the alignment is so jarring its mind boggling how this got shipped.
- anonfunction 6y ago
  I felt the same, I installed a custom css user style extension just to fix it. Here's a link to my comment with example before and after along with the CSS needed for chrome or firefox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292

verdverm 6y ago

The grayscale reduction and loss of contrast is a modern design anti-pattern they have adopted. Makes reading things more difficult

rowanseymour 6y ago

We'll all get used to it, but it's harder now to see what is a button and what isn't, e.g. only 2 of these are clickable https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT https://imgur.com/a/wR9xsvT

rurp 6y ago
Wow, that's pretty bad. Logical consistency was clearly not a guiding principle of this redesign.
- roryokane 6y ago
  There is a consistent principle behind those choices: rectangles with slightly rounded corners are clickable, while rectangles with semicircular sides (“pills”) are not clickable. It's confusing because I've never seen another site that distinguishes clickable elements in that way, but I can imagine we'll grow to find it intuitive with enough usage.
  - rowanseymour 6y ago
    For sure we can all learn through trial and error pretty much any UI. And I know there are complaints any time any big site tries to do a redesign. But a good UI should be intuitive for a first time user. This seems objectively worse.
RampBiggety 6y ago
We will all get used to it all right. I use Arch Linux, free in every sense, and couldn't give a damn about OSX fuckeries. Get over your pussy free lives. Get arch linux-

amarshall 6y ago

This was among the first things I noticed. Here it is with vertical lines added https://i.imgur.com/EVSTdLA.png https://i.imgur.com/EVSTdLA.png

anonfunction 6y ago
I felt the same, and even made the same image with vertical lines in my feedback to GitHub while the change was still in the preview stage. I installed a custom css user style extension just to fix it. Here's a link to my comment with example before and after along with the CSS needed for chrome or firefox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292

enahs-sf 6y ago

the alignment is so jarring its mind boggling how this got shipped.

anonfunction 6y ago
I felt the same, I installed a custom css user style extension just to fix it. Here's a link to my comment with example before and after along with the CSS needed for chrome or firefox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624292