So much hate for an open-source solution that you can self-host for free 
If there’s one thing the n8n team does right, it’s listening to their community.
They’re constantly rolling out new features and actively engaging with user feedback.
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Look cool. Congrats.
How to report bugs?
For example in template gallery when I double click a node in the template to just have a quick peek inside, the node expanded view upper part gets obscured by the floating top menu bar on my 1920x1080 laptop screen.
This particular case is not a major issue and there is definitely a workaround – just copypaste the workflow into a sort of a sandbox, but still…
I like the style – but not super fan of the Lighting Icon, that seems to appear everywhere. The Graph/Donut thingy-mangingy was a better fit. That matched much better the “Node”-aspect in “n8n”. Dunno, could be personal opinion but I have seen it enough “lightnings” in the automation space. 
Also: Seems like Orange is the Primary Color? At least the pink is now only appearing in the logo?
But I guess overall it will taste the new target group better then the “toy-like” design.
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Love the dark mode!
Looks quite nice on mobile devices. I like it! Looks great. Only thing I would adjust… the orange buttons have a yellowish border while the blue ones don’t. I prefer without a border.
i agree with @James_Pardoe at marketing(focus,positioning,visual hammer,branding ecc) level i dont think this feat good to your brand
is a wonderful job excellent animations and design, but I’m not a super fan of this choice.
I hope the data will disprove my doubts
Anyway, good job!
Hi, Johannes here, product marketing and project management for the redesign of the website (quite the beast, admittedly, for our team size).
Thanks for all the kind and all the critical words. We were pretty sure it’s going to make a big splash - one way or the other. That being said, let me give you a bit of the background for the design decisions/process and address some of your points.
As Bart said, the main goal here was to showcase more of the technical power of n8n. As you guys know best, n8n is more powerful than what you would think from the start. And while the old design was friendly and open and made the impression of easy to use, easy to use is not our main goal.
Yes, it is supposed to be easy, but mostly we want it to be flexible. We want you to have to never look for another automation tool again. This is also what most of you praise about the tool when talking about it.
Starting from the old design, this was a hard impression to get right. Even more so when people look at n8n through the lens of (business)-critical workflows.
Dark mode was an obvious choice for technical audiences. New animations, gradients and illustrations are meant to underscore that impression. The lightning bolt as key visual is actually a blown up version of the trigger icon in the product. It is meant to connect website and app. Just as the boxes were - obviously - representations of nodes.
We tested this with focus groups, some customers, users, ambassadors during the past weeks and months and based on this feedback decided to move forward. Oh, and we started this process over a year ago, so it wasn’t at all a nudge from the Series B investors, haha.
We didn’t touch the logo this time around as it was out of scope. It clearly needs work, however. Specifically the typeface feels out of place. With some adaptions the pink and orange should work well together. Something similar goes for the design of the product, which wouldn’t suffer from an updated font (cough inter) and iconography.
Another thing that I think we can still improve on is the usage of animations and gradients overall. Some pages are still to buzzy, others too black. As most of you will know, managing a website is basically managing a product. You’re never done.
That being said, keep the comments coming. 
Cheers,
J
PS: I do see the tension/contrast of this sleek dark design with our friendly community. This (catering to the community) is certainly something that is important to us and I’m still thinking about additional ways to express this.
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Thanks for reporting this. We’re aware of this. Optimizing the speed on Safari first, haha.
(You can use esc or click outside the modal to close the node detail view. 
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I mean, what can I say. The one thing doesn’t prevent us from doing the other, no?
What’s your quarrel with the pricing?
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Thanks. Is this the quick-quickstart template? What browser are you on? 
Oh, good luck with this one. Thanks binary gods IE is not a thing anymore 
easy to use is not our main goal.
That feels to me like the #1 goal. That is what gets you hooked.
And then you realise it can do so much more. But by then…you are hooked.
- We want you to have to never look for another automation tool again.*
This rebrand worries me that you are going off in a direction that might mean I have to look again.
But who knows.
There is a trade-off between ease of use and power in a lot of product design. You can distinguish workflow automation platforms by how they make this trade-off: Zapier is easier to use than n8n but not as powerful, for example.
Of course we want to make n8n’s feature set as easy to use as possible — nothing has changed there, and we still have much work to do — but when choosing that feature set we have always leant towards power and flexibility. That’s what people tell us they value most about n8n, and if that makes the learning curve a little steeper, it’s unfortunately part of the trade-off.
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I think that is fair enough. But did it need this rebrand to do that? As I said before. It feel really hectic and messy.
I like it, but one thing…
You said that zapier is easier to use, but I’ve found something, n8n is more flexible and easier to use.
And that’s why I love n8n.
Be more flexible, be more useful, and be more friendly!
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And I think you should replace these kinda old images.
Old fans of n8n could get this easily, but newbies feel a little hard with the old nodes, like this old
Start node.
Oh yes, most certainly. He who finds all outdated screenshots shall receive a trophy! 
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neat, but that uge flash on top, that’s too much, like way too much