Discovering new projects on Bitbucket

For Atlassian’s most recent FedEx, I decided to tackle an issue we’ve had with the old explore page: It wasn’t very useful for finding new projects! We were showing repositories with the most number of commits that month, and that tended to be the same 5 to 10 repositories. What about up and coming projects? What about repos people are talking about elsewhere on the internet?

To that end, I came up with three minor changes:

  1. Instead of displaying trending repositories for the month by commits, display trending repositories for the week by new followers.
  2. Allow Bitbucket staff to highlight repositories that might not otherwise show up in the trending list.
  3. Display recent tweets that link to bitbucket.org (minus automated tweets for new commits).

The end result is a quick, at-a-glance view of what’s happening on Bitbucket and what the community’s currently talking about:

a screenshot of the new explore page

See the new explore page in action on Bitbucket!