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chikei | 9 years ago

Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.

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yeukhon|9 years ago

Agree. Over use of animation. All these are good examples.

If Google has 50+ projects, then it's best to just have a page with multiple rows, each row is a category, and upon click can expand down to what #3 looks like. Or perhaps just GitHub README... it's pretty nice to read.

[1]: https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/

willnorris|9 years ago

The problem is that we have over 2,000 projects, so simply listing them all on one page doesn't work very well. Hence why we built this directory, which allows browsing by category, by tag, by language, as well as full text search.

znq|9 years ago

We recently thought about on how to do this as well and created our own Open Source page [1]. Not sure if we have done it right, but I quite like it. Happy to receive some feedback on it. It's nothing huge, nevertheless we're quite proud of what we've achieved.

[1]: https://mobilejazz.com/products/opensource

orta|9 years ago

This is nice, I like what you've done with the logos

DannyBee|9 years ago

Well, all of it only really helps you discover the featured ones, because the list was opt in. The total number is in the thousands.

mikecb|9 years ago

I routinely click through the google and gcp orgs, and I hadn't seen quite a few of these, a couple of which I'd really like to use. Congrats!

gordon_freeman|9 years ago

the circling-bubble UI is terrible. But you can use list based UI to filter the ones by tags.

TeMPOraL|9 years ago

I agree. The bubble UI is cutesy but otherwise completely useless. I'd say they should drop it altogether, and stick to the list UI as default.

samfisher83|9 years ago

There is an option make into a normal list its on the upper right hand side.