feat: redesign website with dark developer-focused aesthetic

[afonsojramos]

Summary

gitify.io gets a full visual and content redesign: a dark "midnight console" aesthetic that matches the menu-bar product, a restructured story built from the real feature set, and a toolchain migration from Biome to oxlint + oxfmt. Build-time release fetching is also hardened so download buttons always render, even when the GitHub API is rate-limited.

What changed

• New design system: near-black ink palette with a GitHub-green accent, Space Grotesk / Instrument Sans / JetBrains Mono type, sticky blur navbar with live repo stats, window-chrome frames around screenshots, grid and glow textures. FAQ and 404 pages restyled to match.
• Content restructured around the product: hero with per-OS download buttons and a Homebrew hint; a provider strip with real logos (GitHub Cloud & Enterprise, Gitea, Forgejo, Codeberg, Bitbucket) and the multi-account story; a numbered feature index in place of generic cards; deep-dives on filters and settings; open-source section and a closing CTA.
• Tooling migrated to oxc: oxlint (correctness + suspicious, plus equivalents of the previous Biome style rules) and oxfmt (migrated via oxfmt --migrate=biome). Prettier + prettier-plugin-astro covers .astro files only, since oxfmt cannot format them yet (see New concepts). CI, lint-staged, husky and VS Code settings updated accordingly.
• Release fetching hardened: the shared Octokit client now fails fast (8s timeout, no waiting out rate-limit windows) instead of hanging builds for the full reset period, and a fallback chain keeps direct per-OS download links working without the API at all.

Validation

• lint:check (oxlint + oxfmt --check + prettier --check) clean; build green.
• Rate-limit path exercised end to end with an exhausted API quota: pages render in ~0.2s instead of hanging for minutes, the manifest fallback produced working direct-download links (verified against the live v7.0.0 release manifests, generated URLs resolve), and the graceful "View GitHub Releases" state still renders when stats are unavailable.
• Manual browser pass on the dev server: home, FAQ (accordion + deep links), 404, and a 390px mobile pass.

New concepts

electron-builder latest-*.yml as rate-limit-free release metadata

Direct download links need exact asset names, and Gitify's assets are versioned (Gitify-7.0.0-universal.dmg), so no static permalink to "the latest dmg" can exist. The obvious source, the GitHub REST API, caps unauthenticated callers at 60 requests/hour per IP, which made local builds and previews hang whenever the quota ran out.

Every electron-builder release also publishes latest-mac.yml, latest.yml and latest-linux.yml as plain static assets under releases/latest/download/. Static assets are not API calls, so they are not rate-limited, and each file carries the version, release date and exact versioned asset filenames:

API ──fails/limited──▶ latest-*.yml manifests ──fails──▶ plain "View releases" link

LatestRelease.astro now walks that chain, so the hero always shows real per-OS download buttons. Boundary: this only works for release assets; stats like stars and forks still require the API.

The oxc toolchain and its Astro gap

oxc (oxlint + oxfmt) is a Rust-based, Prettier-compatible lint/format toolchain that replaces Biome here. The piece worth knowing before reviewing the config: oxlint understands .astro frontmatter natively, but oxfmt cannot format .astro files yet (tracked in oxc-project/oxc#19715, Svelte shipped but Astro has not). The bridge is Prettier with prettier-plugin-astro scoped to .astro files only, which is also what the Astro VS Code extension already uses, so editor and CLI formatting agree.

When oxfmt ships Astro support, .prettierrc.mjs and the two prettier dev dependencies can be deleted with no other changes. Boundary: if a project depends on Biome-specific rules with no oxc equivalent (e.g. noSvgWithoutTitle here), that check is lost in the swap.

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[setchy]

Had a quick view before my flight tales off. Super sharp!

I'll look more thoroughly tomorrow.

One item I caught, the screenshots appeared to be stylized with macOS close, minimize window buttons.