Make the "fork me on github" ribbon appear on narrower widths/zoomed in

[pnkfelix]

When I wanted to report an issue with the crates.io site, I didn't immediately know where to look.

It would be good if the site had one of those "fork me on github" ribbons; then someone could just click on that if they want to file an issue (or contribute!)

[carols10cents]

. . . we have one of those though. . .

It's on individual crate pages too:

Is there a page that doesn't have this ribbon in the upper right?

[pnkfelix]

ah my browser windows are narrower than yours, and the ribbon disappears when the window is sufficiently thin.

[pnkfelix]

Example of "sufficiently thin":

[carols10cents]

Whew, ok, I thought I was really losing it :)

I think this raises a bigger issue. Many issues in the UI category make me wonder: why not redoing a design from scratch, using a mobile-first grid system (be it bootstrap, semantic ui, or anything else).

There are many inconsistencies with the current design on narrow screens, but I don't think its worth pointing them out, I think a complete redesign would be easier to do than monkey-patching everywhere.

If such a decision was taken, please count me in, I may be a bad Rust developper, but as far as front end design go, that's another story :p

[carols10cents]

@Insomgla yes, there's actually a PR for a new design that's been outstanding, and another issue that links to other PRs.

I know @aturon has thought about doing a redesign that unifies crates.io and rust-lang.org (which needs some Information Architecture work as well), but that's a bigger project that might need to go through the RFC process (or at least needs research with a variety of stakeholders). This is likely to be contentious with the community, and is tough to do incrementally.

Would you be up for leading a design effort like that?

I would 100%

[carols10cents]

@Insomgla Could you send me an email please? carol.nichols@gmail.com. Thanks!