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Fire the UX guy, the interface is terrible.

Firstly wayyy too much useless animation + distractions. This slows down every aspect of the interface making it annoying to use.

The default of showing just miniature icons of projects provides ZERO useful information. After clicking 'next' and waiting an eternity for the animation to finish, you are presented finally with some information, just a title and description.

In this mode there is no way to know when you've finished seeing all the projects in a category (no clear end).

The no ending is solved by changing the view to the grid based one. But guess what, grids fucking suck for text, they are good for images, we don't scan data grid by grid for sentences, this makes it insanely difficult to read, or skim - ie. read first four words, decide no interest in that particular project, now you have to keep moving your eyes right - which you would normally do if you're INTERESTED and since this is text, you're forced to look over more text from the project which you don't want - in a list view, your eyes go down to the next project, your brain has a clear new context.

And of course nowhere can you see latest commits, total commits, language etc. You know, stuff that matters.



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