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I don't like the new #GitHub design. The existing one was fine to me. I guess I'll get used to it, but man this represents so many wasted design-team-on-staff hours to redo something that already existed. I thought private businesses were supposed to be efficient?
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Kazimierz Kurz
Kazimierz Kurz  
It is just unmotivated supposition, nothing more. And why do you think those businesses want it to work good?
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@Kazimierz Kurz What is "unmotivated supposition" according to you? I'm not sure about your question either, what is the "it"?
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hackbyte (pluspora DEFUNCT!) moved to friendica.utzer.de  
well .. "designers" need to keep their jobs...... lol ;)
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@hackbyte I know, but I'm pretty sure no actual designer has sparked this GitHub redesign effort idea. An executive did. And for me it would be a better reason than to "improve usability" because so far it really doesn't. So much friction for so little benefit.
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Steffen K9 🐰
Steffen K9 🐰  
@Hypolite Petovan
That's right. When developers change the GUI, it takes time to get used to it. 😉

Hint: I will ignore that thread after I commented. Nudge nudge. Wink wink.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
It's true, but I make a distinction between "changing a specific part of the GUI", and "changing the skin of the whole GUI". Up until this big redesign, GitHub had changed several specific parts of the GUI, mostly for the best. This just feels unnecessary.
Steffen K9 🐰
Steffen K9 🐰  
@Hypolite Petovan Yep. Looks like one of those "let's make the interface look fresh and modern" marketing stunts.

Also, I didn't get a notification for your comment! Huzzah! 😀
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Kazimierz Kurz
Kazimierz Kurz  
@hypolite your thoughts about private business efficiency. For example for Microsoft the goal is to control Open Source so it probably is very effective. But people who are using their platform are just naive and thinking about complete different efficiency
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@Kazimierz Kurz I was referring to capitalists' common criticism of public enterprises that they aren't as efficient as private businesses without a profit maximization incentive. It's been the broadcasted motivation for many a privatization of public enterprises in France for example. Airports would be "more efficient", highway management would be "more efficient", railroads would be "more efficient". History isn't kind to these comments but the damage has been done.
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Kazimierz Kurz
Kazimierz Kurz  
I understand. Private is not more effective. It is obvious. Why ownership has to have influence on effectiveness? It is just ideology without any logical background. Like religion or so. It is known since long time
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@Kazimierz Kurz Well, there are practical implications of changing ownership between public and private companies: for example public employees enjoy better benefits overall, a transparent pay scale, legal work hours and almost systematic unionization, which makes labor marginally more expensive with public ownership.
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