Thanks for the feedback. I've created this issue for the UX team to discuss ways we can make this better. We agree, there are a lot of opportunities for improvement here.
I've been asking for this for well over a year. Nothing yet. I think they need a fairly fundamental shift in design thinking.
Hey Dan, Sarrah from the UX team here. I'd love to hear more about your thoughts here. Is there an issue you've created that you can point me to? If not, that's ok. Maybe you can tell me two or three UX changes we could make that you feel would have the most impact on MR and Issues.
Hi Sarrah, I raised it with the UX team in a feedback email a while ago.
It's not just an issue with merge requests or issues, it's more of a general thing – the colour palette and typography do not make GitLab easy to scan in the same way that GitHub is. I find it requires much more mental overhead to parse GitLab.
This, about the mental overhead. So much.
@Sarrah: I put some of my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16214892
FWIW I agree with pretty much all of those points. Great to point out things like line length and container size.
Also possibly worth mentioning, I have the same problems with much of the marketing site and blog, not just the application.
Give me solid black lines for orientation, dammit.