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I haven't been recommending Stylish since their questionable browser history tracking was introduced by default (analysis by uBlock Origin author here [1]).

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/04/major-stylish-add-on-chang...

Exactly. Have been Stylish user since its beginning, and recent history of it is a disaster.

Please, use Stylus [1] if possible.

[1] https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

Do any browsers still support 'usercontent.css'? I would rather use something like that than trust any extension.

Currently, I set style tweaks as bookmarks which is a real pain.

Yes, most of them do, in fact they are told so since CSS2.1 standard. But most of implementations did not allow rules scoped to @document, so was not very convenient to use.

Oh, just Chrome blatantly ditched it recently [0.1].

From comment in this very thread it seems is is still used in Safari [0] nowadays.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355354 [0.1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016 --- Recycling my very first comment here at HN from 2013 [5]:

In Firefox it is userContent.css and userChrome.css [1] (loaded at startup), in Google Chrome custom.css [2](this file is 'live'). IE [3] and Opera [4] have something like this as well.

[1] http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2393 [3] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Use-your-own-sty.... [4] http://www.opera.com/docs/usercss/#user-mode

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436309

I just want the old feed back. I'm not interested in stars and follows, I want to know when PRs/issues to my repos are opened and commented on. The new activity feed which shows up on top of the regular feed is limited to very few items and doesn't show enough details.

This is really good for that: https://octobox.io/

> I want to know when PRs/issues to my repos are opened and commented on

I use email notifications for that. I don't think I ever looked at my GitHub feed except by accident.

If you use Safari, this functionality is built in, no sketchy plugin required. You can save the CSS snippet from the provided link as a file somewhere on your disk, then select the style sheet in Safari > Preferences > Advanced.

It's useful for loads of other cases too. For example, I have mine wrapping Hacker News's <pre> elements so I don't have to horizontally scroll for miles while trying to read.

I should add this to my Stylish profile for GitHub.

If you combine this with Original GitHub Navigation Bar Color [0] you can have an original-ish GitHub theme.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/original-github-na...

Yeah. That would be perfect!

While we're at it, has anybody else noticed that StackOverflow now artificially constrains the center column's width, so that many code examples are now totally unreadable due to unnecessary line-wrapping? Meanwhile, I've got a boat-load of whitespace on the left side of my monitor.

Edit:

    Profile -> Edit Profile & Settings (tab) -> Preferences (left menu) ->  Hide left navigation

Microsoft’s VSTS is getting a facelift [1] so watch that space to see what GitHub might end up looking like.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/06/19/new-navig...

... so it's going to look like GitLab? /s

That's almost the exact same layout as Gitlab.

I'm not quite sure what changed.

The columns switch sides. Seems pretty pointless.

Compare the current homepage and the screenshot that I've attached in the Gist.

Github still uses floats for page layout?! In my flexbox-capable browser?

Backward compatibility you know?

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