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Comment by romanovcode | Hacker News Reader

IMO GitLab should seriously stop with the features and spend more time in making the UI look decent and aesthetically pleasing.

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Yeah. The features are impressive but I find the interface difficult to scan. GitHub is far more legible, but I find the additional time to scan UIs and text on GitLab just makes the whole experience slower and less pleasant.

Yeah, GitLab already "won" on the features. But it doesn't matter when they lose so much on the design.

Hi there. This is something we are actively working on as part of overhauling the entire UI hierarchy.

You can follow the main issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32794

Feel free to let us know your thoughts. This will start making it's way into the application in 9.4 (July) and will be activated through a feature toggle so people can experiment with the new UI, give us feedback and we'll iterate and improve it before we switch it over.

The biggest UI issue they have is the CONSTANT change. It seems like every single month, I need to learn a new UI workflow. Improvement is good, but there is such thing as too much change.

This is a valid point. We are doing all that we can to balance making substantial UI improvements while not making disruptive changes the flows.

We have lots of ongoing UI work. You can always get an overview at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...

If you have any specific issues, feel free to open an issue or share them here so I can open an issue for you.

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