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by zmoazeni 5155 days ago
I do think there may be some honest criticisms for it. But regarding gitspective, my design is bad. Very bad. So bad, I considered making everything shades of hot pink so it might motivate a designer (who would normally pass) to help me out.

I would expect with a better design the back-and-forth would flow would look a lot easier on the eyes.

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Facebook's timeline is bad enough that if I see it, I just close the page. I have enough trouble reading it and figuring out what's going on that I just don't do it.
Why are you married to the back-and-forth thing anyway?

Is it just because facebook does it, or do you have some other strong reason for using it.

I wouldn't say I'm married to it. I actually like the Facebook timeline, and it is what inspired this project. I wondered what my github feed would look like in a timeline/filterable form. So I built it.

The main goal is to be able to take anyone's public github profile and assess what they have done in the open source world. For example, a job candidate who gives sends along their profile. Right now their public github profile page doesn't do a great job distilling that information.