For GitLab.com to be one of the best places for open source, we need to ensure that contributors can quickly find their way to projects they're both passionate about and that meet their skillset. In order to do this, we should improve the Explore page. This page is intended to help match users with projects they're interested in. We should allow users to explore projects without requiring a specific query. We should: - [x] Improve the design for an unfiltered `/explore` viewer - [ ] Adjust empty states for the presented tabs to be compliant with current design guidelines - [ ] Ensure that only groups/projects that the user is not a member of are listed in Explore (discovery use case), to compliment `Your Work`, which is focussed on member access ## Design vision ### Groups  ### Projects  <!-- STATUS NOTE START --> ## Status 2026-07-16 :clock1: **total hours spent this week by all contributors**: 0 :arrow_forward: **next**: * Complete the trending projects removal cleanup _Copied from https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/555#note_3564262920_ <!-- STATUS NOTE END -->