I would love if it was more viable to choose between ads and payment. I don't know how much my current Web habits would end up costing. But if it was a lot, I could stand to cut down on my Web surfing. There are after all other worthwhile things to do.
If this browser is planning to block obtrusive / non-performant ads, and replace them with others, presumably they will have to work out how to pay the website owners. They could use the same structure to set up a micropayments.
Here's the dream; do a refactoring and submit patches for code review. The reviewers first ask "does this (unintentionally) change the behavior of the code?" They look at the semantic patch/run a semantic diff and see that it gives no output. So then they know that it is truly a refactoring and can review it as such without having to bother with any regression testing or anything like that.
Also, I want to have an option/convention to say that "this commit is best viewed with line-based diff/word-based diff, AST diff, semantic diff, ...".
This looks to me like an evolution of tiling windows manager with a flair of mobile/touch. Something makes me think that windows and macos are both headed in this direction in the long term.
It seems like Windows and OS X should focus on tiling if their true goal is productivity, but they have actually gone in the opposite direction in recent releases by focusing on full-screening apps.
I've also considered a tagging system for links - bookmarks are honestly far too much manual management - I'd like a quick hotkey and a tagging interface possibly hooked up with a calendar. I'd be even better to group context from multiple sources such as emails, calendar events, web links and chat protocols so that for my 3PM meeting it could load a screen with all the context I need, allowing me to set up tasks beforehand.
While looting mobile for some our better interactions (Swipe gestures for OS X), I don't see how this is more efficient that what we have. Mobile work flows are far more convoluted and time sucking that current desktop models. This seems to introduce unnecessary steps, and is completely touch pad dependent. Tagging exists in modern OSes already, plus there's a strong use case for folders. There's a reason why dropbox is popular on iOS.
I don't think the fact that GitLab is free for basic users is very discoverable from the site. You've got the "features" tab, which leads to what seems to be the option of downloading a community edition, which makes it look like GitLab is only offering the code itself but not hosting from their, and the enterprise edition for some licensing fee (I suppose). Then you've got "sign in", but no "sign up", which leads me to ask "but then how do I sign up", which most naturally (for me) leads me to the "pricing" tab. Now this page only shows "trial" and the different priced tiers.
But if I press "sign in", I am able to sign up, with no notice about it being just a limited (45 day) trial. So so far I'm assuming that this is a perpetually free account, though I'm not completely sure yet...
1. Community edition
2. Enterprise edition
3. On our server
The 3rd option has this text: Free hosting for private repos? Sign up to get unlimited repos and collaborators.
Clicking on Sign up takes me to https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in which has clear options to sign in or sign up. It also has the text: GitLab.com offers free unlimited (private) repositories and unlimited collaborators, please sign up or in on the right.
In lesser words, it seems pretty clear-cut to me. They offer unlimited free hosting for your repos. I did not see any trial period anywhere. Maybe you went to the Enterprise option?
Hmm, the front page (https://about.gitlab.com/) lists "GitLab.com — On Our Server — Free hosting for private repos? Sign up to get unlimited repos and collaborators. — Sign Up", but I get that it's a bit confusing that the features and pricing pages don't mention anything about it.
To clear things up: GitLab.com is completely free, with unlimited projects and collaborators. GitLab CE is open source and completely free. GitLab EE costs money and has a 45-day trial.
I definitely think there's a discoverability issue there.
1. The Hosted CTA is the right-most one. People don't read that one. Eyes naturally go to the first CTA, and then compare it to the 2nd one. Based on the first 2, I expect the 3rd one to be another downloadable package, not a hosted option, so I don't read it.
2. The top nav-link is "gitlab.com" not "hosted service". If I don't know that gitlab.com is a git hosting service, I'll never look there.
3. As mentioned, features + pricing don't mention gitlab.com, so once you get off the front page, you lose any hints of a hosted option unless you know what the "gitlab.com" link is for.
4. The first headline that my eyes go to below the fold is:
Self-hosted, scalable and updated monthly
That implies to me that "gitlab" is (exclusively) a self-hosted product, and isn't available as a SaaS option.
Yes, it does also say "Or use our free SaaS GitLab.com" but you can't really expect people to read the text immediately below a headline that (effectively) says "not what you're looking for"
Right now, since you're advising people to go self-hosted rather than gitlab.com, that might all be working in your favour. But when you get the performance + reliability of gitlab.com sorted out, I'd strongly advise you to make the SaaS option a lot clearer.
(I realise that I could submit a patch to index.html, but I don't think my 10 minutes of hacking is going to get you to the best outcome)
A better way would be if you had 20+ categories of data that are totally unrelated, like; your tax-stuff, your code, your diary from 1995-2010, ... Since these are very unrelated, you are not likely to need every one of at the same time, ASAP.
Though it's hard for me to imagine having so many categories of unrelated, useful and important data.
