mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
"Normal" VCS hosts (BitBucket, Codeberg, the increasingly "ask"-filled GitHub) are not as good about this as they could be. The README being scrolled offscreen by a file listing is unfriendly¹. I've seen so many cases of non-coders landing on a Github page and not understanding they need to be clicking on the "Releases" box on the right.
But SourceHut feels like, at a design level, it's intentionally hostile to non-coders.
¹ Bitbucket lets you set the wiki as the landing page. I miss that.
mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
The SourceHut design gives a strong sense that it's the byproduct of a set of intentional choices. But I don't agree with those choices. Simplicity and unpretentiousness in design are good, but simplicity isn't an end in itself. Even in minimal designs you want to guide the eye & cleanly separate functional areas. SourceHut is a big expanse of blank white with certain elements shaded gray but others arbitrarily not. The eye gets lost. If you stop and read the labels, the names are idiosyncratic.
