Should we improve the UI/UX and visual appearence of the main site?

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Doesn't mean that I'm saying it looks bad. but certainly it could be better. On first look, I see raw twitter bootstrap styling. Although it looks little bit cleaner, but we can add some clean minimal styling to make this looks nicer, one example would be reputation(if that's what points are called here), visualization is rather basic and looks old.(https://i.imgur.com/zDewFSq.png )

another one would be on the top bar, (https://i.imgur.com/4bjoxlB.png)

choosing sans-serif font is good imho. it goes with current design trends and with google fonts like Open Sans, Ubuntu, Lato, Raleway or Montserrat, this would look much better on screen.

In my opinion, appearance is key to success, it doesnt matter if your app works without a teeny tiny problem, if it looks messy, not user friendly , and old. I think among the team, there are very talented frontend devs, who can finish this within few hours.

Can we implement this? or it's already on the way?

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I think among the team, there are very talented frontend devs, who can finish this within few hours.

Why thank you. I do appreciate the vote of confidence... but that said, I'm the only developer on this project. Have a read of this introductory post for some information about what this project is and how it came about.

The current state of the design is a re-work of the original design when I first wrote this software several years back. The design now has been brought up to date and made responsive so that it works across devices. It's not the most polished design in the world, but it's not too bad.

General suggestions like "improve reputation" or "improve the top bar" are difficult to put into action, because I don't know what you mean by them. To get to a workable position, I need to know what you're thinking of, and I need to reconcile that with the various requirements of the project - in particular accessibility, responsiveness, and clarity. That's not easy to do with a generic suggestion.

If you have specific suggestions for what could be done, I'm happy to consider those. Even better, if you have some ready-made CSS for me, the project is open-source, so you're welcome to improve on the code.

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