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Re:Redesigning GitHub by kolektiv on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:05AM (#3914640)
Simple does not have to mean featureless. Essentially equating lack of ease with a UI as stupidity is somewhat rude, but worse it's short sighted. Many people have spoken recently about the Github UI - it's much better than what came before in that world, but it can be better, as I'm sure they'd admit.

Your "constant drive to simplify" is better understood as a constant drive to improve. Local maxima are dangerously beguiling, we should always question.

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Re:Redesigning GitHub by kaolinite on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:08AM (#3914657)
"Simple does not have to mean featureless"

Very, very true. Good design can be simple and powerful. However, sadly - it often does mean featureless and this link is a perfect example.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Both my posts were just downvoted. If you don't agree, fair enough - but please tell me why rather than just downvoting and running.

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Re:Redesigning GitHub by kaolinite on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @12:02PM (#3914981)
@jkochris, Fair enough. My first post was quick to attack (and I have now edited this to show my points in a calmer manner) however I'm unsure why my second post was downvoted as it was - as far as I'm concerned - a perfectly legitimate response.

As for not reading the article, I can assure you that I did. I am simply sick of quality software being ruined. I think the perfect example of this is the Gnome desktop, which is being trashed by designers who are removing key features and functionality - all in the name of simplifying and making things look "elegant" and "beautiful". There are many more cases of this, both commercially (Windows 8 may be the latest example, soon enough) and in the open-source world.

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Re:Redesigning GitHub by jkochis on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:56AM (#3914945)
I'm gonna guess that you're getting down voted because your first post is a poorly thought out attack, and it seems like you didn't read the article.
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