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Re:GitHub Community Forum by superplussed on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:34AM (#15693776)
Man, the design of this is so unpolished that I actually find it a bit stressful to look at. The lack of grid adherence, the strange hierarchy of font sizes, it doesn't seem up to Github's normal high standards of clean and sensible design choices. But then I guess it's new and they'll refine it.
Re:GitHub Community Forum by ryanSrich on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:18AM (#15694693)
Yeah it's incredibly weird how unfinished this seems.

Look at the navigation hierarchy. There are two nav background colors, but you can barely see the difference (even on a new MBP). The search input blends into the nav background, and not in a stylistic way, it seems completely on accident.

The "Community Forum" logo type looks off brand.

The iconography illustration in the masthead was mailed in. It's just the same two icons copy pasted.

The card layout at the bottom seems very un-github as well. They are typically very good at handling large amounts of text and information, but those cards are really hard to read. They bounce around from center-aligned lists (usually a bad idea) to nested columns.

I will say the community search is nice.

Re:GitHub Community Forum by pcmaffey on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:37AM (#15695317)
Also the menu on mobile has the search overlapping the title. Looks like this project bypassed qa.
Re:GitHub Community Forum by zichy on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:52AM (#15693832)
I like the topic lists and threads, but the front page is just horrible. No idea what's going on there.
Re:GitHub Community Forum by gramakri on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:10AM (#15695641)
I think they use a product called lithium and did not build their own.