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i think it's stupid ... putting the apple, windows, android logo on the frontpage, getting rid of their own playful brand element(octocat) completely. oh, and o

by franze 14y ago

i think it's stupid ... putting the apple, windows, android logo on the frontpage, getting rid of their own playful brand element(octocat) completely. oh, and on top of that adding two meaningles illustrations that can only be seen as an insult to any thinking developer. as a person who is kinda proud of having octocat as one of two stickers on my mac i have to say: it sucks and i cant identify with it. tl;dr: get rid of the apple/mac/android logos, bring octocat back.

leviathant 14y ago
To play the pedant, they haven't completely gotten rid of Octocat - check out the favicon.
- franze 14y ago
  if the only place where you display your most popular visual brand element is the footer and the favicon, you are doing it wrong.
  - jeremymcanally 14y ago
    We've never had an Octocat on the home page, actually.
    - franze 14y ago
      ok, my bad, but you should have.
    - djisjke 14y ago
      BOOM!
    - sgh_1 14y ago
      Should Octocat not occupy more prominence than the third party logos --- at least, any branding guy would say so ...
markdotto 14y ago
I mentioned it before, but we didn't have an Octocat on the homepage before this.
Oompa 14y ago
What Octocat? Do you mean the Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft logos? http://cl.ly/image/1R2h2B3Z2m3x/poop.jpg http://cl.ly/image/1R2h2B3Z2m3x/poop.jpg