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contains all and only the information I want to see

http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/images/2008/03...

examples of better presentations

Here it is - http://github.com/

Is that information not useful?

Sure, all information useful, but presentation and usability of fossil ui is near zero. It looks like a programmer without any aesthetic taste just throw all information in random places on screen just to fill it. While UX designers polishes every checkbox, padding and font size. For example - why unreadable commit ids occupy so much space on the screen? When I open timeline - I want to read commit descriptions first, and only after that I may be interested in some commit id. I'm opening github timeline and I'm focused on commit descriptions, but fossil timeline accents me on useless commit ids!

I'm not trolling here

Me too. I bet 99% of Github success is a good UX - but it is very difficult for programmer to understand it.

web UI is adequate

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?y=ci Adequate for what? That is just a mess of unimportant info.

Please, never share this link again! My eyes...

skin

The problem of fossil UI is not a skin. Why that annoying commit hashes are so big? Do you really read them first? Take a look at github UI: every button and label have meaningful place and polished. And that is the problem of most github clones - they forgot to hire a designer.