First of all I am not a webdev.

I always felt that crates.io looks a bit cramped on my desktop machine.

For example this is how it currently looks

After I changed the width

Now it has the same size as Github. I personally think this would be an improvement, what do you think?

For use in enterprises.

It could be an effective way to support costs of running crates.io.

On business side, it could simplify things and avoid creating their own indexes/custom proxy.

When opening Crates.io, only the "browse all crates" option is provided, so for a new visitor has to scroll to the bottom to see that the "popular keywords/categories" option is also available and there's an option to browse by keywords/categories at all.

Here is a lighthouse report for a package page on crates.io :

A time-to-interactive of 8.6 seconds on mobile makes the site difficult to use.

On https://crates.io/crates/futures every version listed in the sidebar is yanked. Even if new versions are pushed this is going to persist because newer versions will be 0.1.* while it was the entire 0.2 series that was yanked (and versions are sorted by version, not publish date).

It seems like the overview in the sidebar should maybe not show yanked versions, and just show the latest un-yanked versions. The "show all XX versions" page could then be used if a user wants to see the yanked versions.