New Homepage

There's a fine line you can cross with minimalist design where it suddenly feels cold, generic, and frail. And I believe Github has crossed this line with this new homepage. I also echo some other's lamentations that Octocat is gone. It's just not.. fun.

I've been finding Proxima Nova[1] <i>everywhere</i> this year. I'm not complaining though—I think it's a beautiful, highly readable typeface.<p>[1] <a href="https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova" rel="nofollow">https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova</a>

I love GitHub but the new homepage makes GitHub feel like a small, seed funded startup &#38; not a trusted company.

GitHub is awesome, but why so many upvotes for a homepage redesign?<p>EDIT: Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?

i think it's stupid ... putting the apple, windows, android logo on the frontpage, getting rid of their own playful brand element(octocat) completely. oh, and on top of that adding two meaningles illustrations that can only be seen as an insult to any thinking developer.<p>as a person who is kinda proud of having octocat as one of two stickers on my mac i have to say: it sucks and i cant identify with it.<p>tl;dr: get rid of the apple/mac/android logos, bring octocat back.

I find the lack of octocat disturbing.

It still has no (prominent) search box on the homepage. Do I need to explain how dumb this is?

I wish they would make their stuff look better on mobile.<p>I guess I'm the only sick person who looks at code while in my bed on my iPhone. I really should read a book instead.

Cool. Too bad I've seen the Github [1] homepage only once, and will never have see it again.<p>[1] - or any other authenticated service for that matter.

I dig it. Looks nice and makes me want to use the service, but I can't get past the cost of the private repos. The unlimited, free, private repos are what keep me at BitBucket.

I wanted to compare the old and new pages, but noticed that their robots.txt disallowed the wayback machine from caching it.<p>Also, the Octocat was not on the page that Google cached: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SZgkdCZ5k2sJ:https://github.com/+&#38;cd=1&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk&#38;gl=ca" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SZgkdCZ...</a>

My first reaction was that it looks like the old BitBucket page. A lot.

When I needed to get my rails-update-fix I usually checked from my ipad where I haven't logged in to my github account.. then I used the railslink on top. Now it's gone :/ First world probblem :P.<p>I think the new one is too clean/generic.

I really dislike the new design. Also, it's just me or the fonts are horribly cluttered? I'm guessing it's my fault and I need some font installed or something, because it's really awful.

It looks like a Google creation. Nothing wrong with that. I would expect Google to know a thing or two about funnels.<p>Best of all is the big button -- I know what to do!

I like this design, it's clean, minimal and yet still professional. It's a reflection of the way the web has been (thankfully) moving the last few years.

the star wars themed octocat is still on their 404 page. example: <a href="https://github.com/loginzzz" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/loginzzz</a>

My favourite part? The class names on some of the elements.<p>".jumbotron .heading" ".mega-icon"<p>I should name things like that more :)

Finally, that old homepage was an abomination.