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We actually do employ several UX designers at the moment (see https://about.gitlab.com/team).

Thanks for pointing that out. Though there's a difference between UX and UI. Would be nice to see some UIs on that list too.

You could spike their creativity with this simple command:

sudo echo "127.0.0.1 github.com" >> /etc/hosts

I think you mean:

echo "127.0.0.1 github.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts > /dev/null