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At what point does it become a concern when you're just ripping off the UI of a competing product?

by alexcason 12y ago

Ygg2 12y ago
Isn't GitLab doing the same thing?
- one-more-minute 12y ago
  GitLab could definitely have been a bit more original with the name, but actually the UI is very different from GitHub. Which has its pros and cons, of course.
  - EduardoBautista 12y ago
    How original can you be if you want your product name to be explicit that it works with git?
    - corobo 12y ago
      and as short as possible in the domain name sense
  - sytse 12y ago
    Just wanted to say that neither being the same of different is a goal for GitLab, we just want to have an easy to understand, efficient and beautiful interface.
doughj3 12y ago
Something something good artists, great artists? Personally I feel for pieces of software like this it's fair to more or less clone the user interface. There's a lot of effort built up in understanding how to use this tool. Think of the complaints LibreOffice gets for not looking enough like Word, or GIMP for not looking enough like Photoshop. Plus, Gitlab is already open source, so can you really call it "ripping off"? If you're referring moreso to Github, then I think Gitlab did it first and Gogs is following that trend. I'm sure both projects improve on UI where they feel best.
- treve 12y ago
  It's one thing to offer the same UI elements and experience, it's another thing to make it look identical in colors, spacing, fonts, icons, etc... They took it quite far imho.
  - doughj3 12y ago
    Can you show some screenshots of what you mean? Gogs[0] looks plenty different from Gitlab[1] in colors, fonts, icons, and spacing. Hardly identical, but both clearly inspired from Github. [0] http://gogs.io/imgs/screenshoots/2.png http://gogs.io/imgs/screenshoots/2.png [1] https://about.gitlab.com/images/feature_page/activity_stream_full.png https://about.gitlab.com/images/feature_page/activity_stream...
    - comex 12y ago
      I think the idea is that Gogs mimics GitHub, not Lab.

At what point does it become a concern when you're just ripping off the UI of a competing product?

Ygg2 12y ago

Isn't GitLab doing the same thing?

one-more-minute 12y ago
GitLab could definitely have been a bit more original with the name, but actually the UI is very different from GitHub. Which has its pros and cons, of course.
- EduardoBautista 12y ago
  How original can you be if you want your product name to be explicit that it works with git?
  - corobo 12y ago
    and as short as possible in the domain name sense
- sytse 12y ago
  Just wanted to say that neither being the same of different is a goal for GitLab, we just want to have an easy to understand, efficient and beautiful interface.

doughj3 12y ago

Something something good artists, great artists? Personally I feel for pieces of software like this it's fair to more or less clone the user interface. There's a lot of effort built up in understanding how to use this tool. Think of the complaints LibreOffice gets for not looking enough like Word, or GIMP for not looking enough like Photoshop. Plus, Gitlab is already open source, so can you really call it "ripping off"? If you're referring moreso to Github, then I think Gitlab did it first and Gogs is following that trend. I'm sure both projects improve on UI where they feel best.

treve 12y ago
It's one thing to offer the same UI elements and experience, it's another thing to make it look identical in colors, spacing, fonts, icons, etc... They took it quite far imho.
- doughj3 12y ago
  Can you show some screenshots of what you mean? Gogs[0] looks plenty different from Gitlab[1] in colors, fonts, icons, and spacing. Hardly identical, but both clearly inspired from Github. [0] http://gogs.io/imgs/screenshoots/2.png http://gogs.io/imgs/screenshoots/2.png [1] https://about.gitlab.com/images/feature_page/activity_stream_full.png https://about.gitlab.com/images/feature_page/activity_stream...
  - comex 12y ago
    I think the idea is that Gogs mimics GitHub, not Lab.