GitHub Alternatives

Re:GitHub Alternatives by richardwhiuk on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:22PM (#17243026)

GitLab's UI is in every way a travesty compared to GitHub's.

GitLab feels like using GitHub's UI from about 3 years ago. Here's a list of things missing, just to name a few:

    > consolidated reviews
    > multiple assigned people
    > reasonable diffs when merging complicated changes, ability to review code since it was last reviewed
    > easy to create merge requests, and plenty of context sensitive stuff
    > can generate comparisons of code online without creating a merge request

There's so many small UI/UX pain points

Take https://gitlab.com/coldnight/ci-test (which was the trending repo when I visited....):

    > The navigation is spread across:
      > The very top
      > The left hand side
      > An inline breadcrumbs below that
      > A bar in the middle of the screen
      > A bar below that
    > History button duplicates Commits button.
    > About 30% of the top of the UI is just useless filler - so the content on the page (the tree and the README - which is probably want I want when I visit a project) also consists of a small box in the bottom of the scren.

Compare https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data (which is the top trending repo on Explore on GitHub!):

    > Much more consistent navigation - series of contextual bars which move down - so each page is more consistent

    > Much more of the screen is available for the tree / README

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by andreasmarc on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:33AM (#17254476)

Hi richardwhiuk, GitLab team member here.

We appreciate open feedback, thank you for these UI details. We are very aware of the lack of polishing of our current project home page and missed opportunities. There is a specific issue on that we are working on for a July release right now, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44704. This is a first step of the larger effort we are tackling to improve the overall experience via https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/62. Please feel free to check these out and comment in the issue.

Regarding our navigation, we feel confident that the experience has been greatly improved with the new 10.0 UI. See https://about.gitlab.com/2017/09/13/unveiling-gitlabs-new-na... for some context. I’d like to encourage you to get involved and let us know what you think! You can always create an issue to contribute improving the GitLab experience.

Andreas Product Manager

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