Introducing Project Paper Cuts

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55 points·kanishkdudeja··6 comments

This is actually the most exciting "feature announcement" that GitHub has made in a long time for me. User experience is to a large extend a sum of little things. Being able to select and copy diff contents without the ± markers is a great example and very much appreciated already!

I'm not holding out hope. They recently made it very difficult to edit PR descriptions as a result of the change to make it easier to "copy the URL of a comment"[1].

Previously there was an edit button. Now there's 2 buttons: "add a reaction" and "•••" which has a sub-menu containing copy URL & edit. I wonder which of all 3 of these I'm most likely to want.

In effect they've added a huge paper cut for me, not removed one.

[1]: https://blog.github.com/changelog/2018-08-17-copy-url-commen...

Unsure how much this will actually improve things, but I'm at least hopeful that they're thinking about the problem in this way; my issues with GitHub have very much been in the "death by a thousand cuts" camp.

Hey look, they took feedback rather than banning all extensions that modified github! Good job, guys. Take a hint, Slack.

fingers crossed they fix PR discussions becoming hard to find after you update the commented area. That's been a bugbear for me for quite some time.

They seem to be rolling out and/or maybe A/B testing the basics of comment resolution, which is promising. Hiding comments when the chunk gets updated seemed like a poor approximation of actual comment resolution, so if they're implementing the latter in earnest, they might fix the approximation.

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