Github redesigns Profiles

- Now "owning" a repo seems even more important. Regularly commit to someone else's repo? Not evident unless you go digging for it.

- The timeline bar-graph used to show blue for your own commits and grey for other people's. Now it either looks like you did all the work (your own repo), or someone else did it (forked repos).

Even if these two don't matter to you personally, I fear it'll help drive behaviour you see a lot in the Ruby community where, unless it's a huge project like Rails, people start their own versions in the hope of getting it popular and recognised. There's little status to be gotten from tinkering on "someone else's" repo.

(Think social startups except with code libraries.)

Particularly I don't like that the activity is now hidden on profile pages. I often like to look at people's activity, and it bothers me that it is an extra click away every time now.

I miss the blue to distinguish your own commits from commits by other users.

Information that used to be available right on top such as organizations, and people the user is following are now harder to find or below the fold (on my macbook air 11").

Also now that the filters on top have more emphasis (All, Public, Private, etc) I think they should remove ones that are not useful. For example I don't have any private repos or mirrors so I feel like there shouldn't be links to empty pages, but this is a minor detail.

On top of that I think the page itself has a bit too much white space. It feels a bit plain to me.

Both the profile and the dashboard now show less information than they used to. The icons are a nice touch but totally irrelevant, and are not effective on a quick glance.

Meanwhile, the streams constantly show redundant information: e.g. 10 successive commits+push or wiki edits on the same project (happens all the time in my feeds) consume 10 distinct rows - why not collapse them together?

The launch bar was actually a cool idea, but it's more of a hack than a useful tool. And pray tell me what good does the /launch page do? Why should I ever use it as a landing page?

And don't get me started on the push performance, which is abysmal and feels like it has constantly been degrading over time.

I'll say it again, I <3 github, and they're a truly awesome team. But for the past several months every single change they've made was a big "wow, new X, let's take a look" followed by a sad, soft "meh".

I have one forked repo that I forked to fix a line in their docs, and it looks to all the world like I spent a time of time on it.

This is concerning because its a sign of to much focus, going from x1 amount of resources to x10 means you risk over-developing what was great. You have too much time, to many resources, so you over develop things when they truly don't need any changes (at the time). The only saving grace here is they could be in the middle of a shift to a much larger vision, so these changes all seem poor until it all comes together in the following months. I have to ask though, why the shotgun approach to the updates then, they should take their time, once a week would be enough change for me, allow me to actually feel out the changes before adding more. =/

Still needs a space to add in a brief bio though considering Github is considered to be the new age developer resume.

I wonder how many of these accidental deploys they have on a regular basis which we don't notice.

- to see the activity of all repos at a glance, not just on hover - visually pick out repos that are predominantly in one language over another

The design is nice, though.

I'd prefer to see work done on features that are hurting the utility of the profile page - like listing repos that you're a collaborator of, but not necessarily the owner.

As it stands, the profile page is a misrepresentation of a user's work on Github.

It looks nice though.