I got the option to opt into this "feature" a few (4? 5?) days ago. I've been intending to give feedback, but haven't had time, yet, to take screenshots and marshal my thoughts.
I don't want to over-perform it, but I'm annoyed GH bothered prompting me for feedback on something that they were going to general release in less than a week anyways. I'm not really a cranky person, but I already wasted an hour of my life looking for some good plugins that would help me annotate the page to illustrate my thoughts.
I have a billion things more important than giving GH free feedback on my plate, but I was nonetheless naively looking forward to giving feedback on it because it was the first time I've ever been opted into a UI experiment where the ability to give feedback was so prominent that I felt like anyone actually gave a shit.
So. Now, I'm cranky.
1. The visual alignment of this design is miserable relative to the previous. I'm willing to entertain counterpoints from the actual designers here (and I do appreciate that this design is more responsive). I was going to send a number of nice little graphics illustrating how multiple strong visual lines are destroyed by this layout, but I'm not frittering away any more of my life on it, now.
2. The list of releases is probably the single most important signal on the page. And now, if a project has no releases, it's just an absence. There's no indication. I just have to know, from its absence, that there are no releases.
3. It's covered elsewhere in the thread, but I agree on the languages being moved. Someone notes that the existing location was obscure; fine, just force the existing indicators to expanded-by-default. They were in the right place. The second most important signal is what languages a project is in. In some responsive views this information is now at the bottom of the page. This is absolutely backwards.
Everything else on my commentary list is probably covered elsewhere here. If not, I don't really care.
P.S. In the future, don't jerk people around with feature opt-ins with less than a week of turnaround on feedback.
I don't want to over-perform it, but I'm annoyed GH bothered prompting me for feedback on something that they were going to general release in less than a week anyways. I'm not really a cranky person, but I already wasted an hour of my life looking for some good plugins that would help me annotate the page to illustrate my thoughts.
I have a billion things more important than giving GH free feedback on my plate, but I was nonetheless naively looking forward to giving feedback on it because it was the first time I've ever been opted into a UI experiment where the ability to give feedback was so prominent that I felt like anyone actually gave a shit.
So. Now, I'm cranky.
1. The visual alignment of this design is miserable relative to the previous. I'm willing to entertain counterpoints from the actual designers here (and I do appreciate that this design is more responsive). I was going to send a number of nice little graphics illustrating how multiple strong visual lines are destroyed by this layout, but I'm not frittering away any more of my life on it, now.
2. The list of releases is probably the single most important signal on the page. And now, if a project has no releases, it's just an absence. There's no indication. I just have to know, from its absence, that there are no releases.
3. It's covered elsewhere in the thread, but I agree on the languages being moved. Someone notes that the existing location was obscure; fine, just force the existing indicators to expanded-by-default. They were in the right place. The second most important signal is what languages a project is in. In some responsive views this information is now at the bottom of the page. This is absolutely backwards.
Everything else on my commentary list is probably covered elsewhere here. If not, I don't really care.
P.S. In the future, don't jerk people around with feature opt-ins with less than a week of turnaround on feedback.