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Re:GitHub Alternatives 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

Regarding Markdown renderering, from my perspective the most important improvement is reducing the line width to a better readable character length. This is already addressed [0] and on the list for the 8.14 release. I agree that the spacing can be improved. In general, my impression is that there is a good awareness for required UI improvements [1] in the GitLab team. So I’m looking forward to the upcoming releases.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13680

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22192