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i hate the new circular avatars. A few weeks ago, github avatars were square and it looked much better. It is also contrary to the published github visual gui

i hate the new circular avatars. A few weeks ago, github avatars were square and it looked much better. It is also contrary to the published github visual guidelines. EDIT: quote from the current github style guide: Avatars are images that users can set as their profile picture. On GitHub, they're always going to be rounded squares. They can be custom photos, uploaded by users, or generated as Identicons as a placeholder.

tppiotrowski 6y ago
This reminds me of a massive flame war when Atlassian switched to circular avatars for projects https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-28275 https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-28275
- Minor49er 6y ago
  This is a pretty typical Atlassian experience. They push changes and will often ignore negative feedback which results in flames. When I had to use them at previous jobs, I had a couple of favorite threads that I liked to follow. One of these was "Hitting Escape key while editing issue description loses contents" [1] which took about five years to address. Another was "Was blame removed from source tree?" [2] where Atlassian decided to reference "blame" as "annotate" without announcing the change, but did it because "blame" is a bad word (there was more on that thread from the devs themselves, but they apparently have deleted their posts) [1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36670 https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36670 [2] https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Was-blame-removed-from-source-tree-Or-where-did-it-move-to/qaq-p/763394 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Was-...
  - dbbk 6y ago
    Blame is a terrible name for that feature though
sdesol 6y ago
I use to feel the same way, but I've been slowly incorporating the circular avatars into my own solution. I don't know why GitHub changed things, but from my own personal experience, I've found circular avatars to be "less distracting". I'm guessing by cropping more of the image, my attention doesn't focus on them as long. If I want the focus to last longer, I'll still use rectangular avatars since they contain more information. See example below to see how I mix-match things. https://imgur.com/a/2nlXekJ https://imgur.com/a/2nlXekJ
userbinator 6y ago
Frankly, I hate the trend of rounding everything, and have a few rules in my user stylesheet to square things up again everywhere.

tppiotrowski 6y ago

This reminds me of a massive flame war when Atlassian switched to circular avatars for projects https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-28275 https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-28275

Minor49er 6y ago
This is a pretty typical Atlassian experience. They push changes and will often ignore negative feedback which results in flames. When I had to use them at previous jobs, I had a couple of favorite threads that I liked to follow. One of these was "Hitting Escape key while editing issue description loses contents" [1] which took about five years to address. Another was "Was blame removed from source tree?" [2] where Atlassian decided to reference "blame" as "annotate" without announcing the change, but did it because "blame" is a bad word (there was more on that thread from the devs themselves, but they apparently have deleted their posts) [1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36670 https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36670 [2] https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Was-blame-removed-from-source-tree-Or-where-did-it-move-to/qaq-p/763394 https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Was-...
- dbbk 6y ago
  Blame is a terrible name for that feature though

sdesol 6y ago

I use to feel the same way, but I've been slowly incorporating the circular avatars into my own solution. I don't know why GitHub changed things, but from my own personal experience, I've found circular avatars to be "less distracting". I'm guessing by cropping more of the image, my attention doesn't focus on them as long. If I want the focus to last longer, I'll still use rectangular avatars since they contain more information. See example below to see how I mix-match things. https://imgur.com/a/2nlXekJ https://imgur.com/a/2nlXekJ

userbinator 6y ago

Frankly, I hate the trend of rounding everything, and have a few rules in my user stylesheet to square things up again everywhere.