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Personally I find the UI and terminology so willfully - almost obstinately - different to github's, that it's an absolute pain to navigate. I'm sure I could get used to it, but just now I just wanted to jump to the code, and it took roughly 30 seconds to find it hidden inside the 'repository' tab.

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Yeah, some of it is just familiarity but I do think GH truly nailed UI to quickly evaluate a project while also being good for working in long-term, at least on desktop—I have complaints about their mobile UI, but when I'm using that it's usually because I'm just curious and messing around anyway, so it's not a big deal. It's also nice and snappy.

[EDIT] I also assume a higher likelihood that key persons on the project are the contrarian-for-contrary's-sake sort if they're not on GH. Not that it's certain, mind, but that it's a bit more likely.

I don't think your issues with Gitlab's UI are the UI's fault. In addition to clicking on the "repository" link (which is a common term used by both Git and Github themselves) or scrolling up as others have noted, you can also click on any of the first three links immediately under the gitlab logo ("httpx", "project", and "details") to get to a view similar to github's default.

The link is already in a page similar to the main page of repo on Github. Open and link and scroll up?

Ugh, it's a link to the `README`, with a fixed sidebar. I partially take back my original comment, but I'd still argue that it's not the most helpful UI.

How can we make it more helpful?

Maybe I've spent enough time with GitLab, but I find GitHub's UI annoying.

Not browsing the repository / looking at a file? Can't go to the "jump to file" page.

Not at the root of a repository? Can't access releases.

Their "mobile UI" (which, I think, is being rehauled?)

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