Even the changelog summary is similarly directionless:
> Today we’ve launched a refresh to the design of GitHub UI, and layout changes to your repository homepage. We hope these changes improve your experience visiting and maintaining repositories, and using GitHub in general. Along with visual design changes, you’ll see the the following updates to your repository homepage:
- Responsive layout and improved mobile web experience
- More content surfaced via the repository sidebar
- Ability to show or hide Releases, Packages, and Environments in your repository sidebar
> These changes lay the foundation for future incremental improvements that will better surface your projects, the people who make them extraordinary, accessibility, and yes, dark mode.
The whole thing reads like it was an update to a landing page, which it is for some projects. But it's also a core point of collaboration and workflow for many, not to be rearranged without precise and deliberate intention for each and every change. A "refresh to the design" rebrand to signal new ownership is not welcome.
Edit: it's even really bad as a landing page. I just realized that the README is now often 'below the fold' because of so much linespacing whitespace above it.
The 'refresh' was clearly meant to be for its own sake and any improvements secondary or incidental.
Even the changelog summary is similarly directionless:
> Today we’ve launched a refresh to the design of GitHub UI, and layout changes to your repository homepage. We hope these changes improve your experience visiting and maintaining repositories, and using GitHub in general. Along with visual design changes, you’ll see the the following updates to your repository homepage:
> These changes lay the foundation for future incremental improvements that will better surface your projects, the people who make them extraordinary, accessibility, and yes, dark mode.The whole thing reads like it was an update to a landing page, which it is for some projects. But it's also a core point of collaboration and workflow for many, not to be rearranged without precise and deliberate intention for each and every change. A "refresh to the design" rebrand to signal new ownership is not welcome.
Edit: it's even really bad as a landing page. I just realized that the README is now often 'below the fold' because of so much linespacing whitespace above it.
The 'refresh' was clearly meant to be for its own sake and any improvements secondary or incidental.