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Comment by richardknop | Hacker News Reader

Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure.

Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make different parts of the page more easily distinguished.

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We're actually completely overhauling the GitLab's UI https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32794

That looks AMAZING. Maybe even better than GitHub. Great job, can’t wait for this!!!

I do wonder what your comment has to do with the freaking topic.

I clicked on the title of this post which links to gitlab repository page. And I was frustrated with the UI while trying to find out more about this project.

Still, the topic is gitter. Please help keep HN noise free and useful by staying on topic.

Clicking on the title brings you to the project page which shows the latest activity for that project. I can understand being frustrated as you most likely expected to land on a page with files and a readme. Clicking on the Repository tab will bring you to this view. Project owners have the option to make the repository view the default view. It looks as though this was not enabled on this project.

Hiya,

Anything specific about the UI you'd suggest changing? We'd love to hear your feedback so we can improve. Feel free to suggest improvements in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

I agree with commenter. My particular problems (not all about UI).

- Submenu is so gray its hardly visible (the one showing files, commits etc)

- Pipeline interface is horrible. If job is manual it cant be executed from the job page or repeated with latest code without resurfing trough menu.

- Project builds can not be deleted in bulk without using API

- Public projest are basically hidden, I have to explain to everybody how to find something.

- Snippets do not have comments if not part of project.

- Code review not possible outside of commit.

Thank you for the specifics, it is helpful to know what UI elements we can improve on.

The submenu is going away. We have done extensive testing on our navigation and are making significant improvements. Take a look at the issue, I would love to know your thoughts:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32794

We have a few issues to address improving the pipelines interface, take a look or create issues with your suggestions on how we can make the UI better for you.

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