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  • Ever since I discovered `gh`, I stopped going on the website itself. Stuff like this just makes it even more unlikely I'll return :-D
    by ew-dev
  • There’s an inbox view in github that shows me all the PRs I have to care about. It’s amazing.

    Except I discovered that it just doesn’t include things sometimes. Items that show up in the “this month” filter disappear in the “last 3 months” filter for example.

    This is one of those things where if it only works 98% of the time, it’s next to useless. I can’t just pretend a few PRs each week don’t exist.

    by Waterluvian
  • I’ll just contrast this with the default dashboard experience at my employer’s in-house bug tracker. That dashboard allows the user to customize the view in a grid, such as 1x2 or 2x3 or 3x3. Then within each item of a grid you can define a search query whose results will be displayed there. For each result, you can customize which items to show, e.g. subject, need attention, assignee, priority, etc. The UI feels dated in a late 2000s style, but it permits staggering amount of customization. When different employees open their dashboard it feels like different websites.
    by kccqzy
  • Chances are slim that someone from GitHub will read this, but the text in this post (and other posts in the Changelog category) would be much more readable if there was more contrast between the text and the background (now it's dark grey text on black background).
    by rpozarickij
  • This has noticeably worse info density compared to https://github.com/notifications, https://github.com/issues and https://github.com/pulls. Those old pages' list entries have padding-top: 8px and padding-bottom: 10px. This new dashboard's list entries have padding: 16px. Just why? It’s definitely more relevant though, overall a positive.
    by oefrha
  • Over the last four years, GitHub announcing a change or new feature has generally led to a worse experience, for me at least.
    by gardnr
  • It's great to add new features, but couldn't GitHub fix the essential ones first?

    Just this week, I encountered the following problems:

    - a diff showing "0 files changed" while there are many [1];

    - suggested changes in a PR not rendering the original line [2];

    - bug trackers not showing more than the 40th page [3].

    Might seem nitpicky but it was just over the last week... I have a whole bunch of other bugs on my mind, and unfortunately, it's only gotten worse over the years. To the point where I almost don't care anymore.

    [1] https://github.com/PokeAPI/sprites/pull/284#issuecomment-585...

    [2] https://github.com/Delgan/loguru/pull/1516#discussion_r41268...

    [3] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182925

    by Delgan
  • A lot of people seem to be complaining, but the last iteration had Copilot at the top and then a "Feed" of what other people were doing.

    This seems to push your issues and pull requests as the main items of the page, and that's significantly better.

    by radicalriddler

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