Discussion on /r/github: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/hei81f/
Personally I think it's an improvement on mobile - finally the entire README is readable by default.
That being said was there any warning/reasoning behind the change? I cannot find any announcements.
The thing is, they just released an excellent app, which was seemingly meant to solve the problem of browsing GitHub on mobile. It's a bit surprising that this design, by many aspects, seems targeted towards mobile users and is already displaying more useful info than the app.
i always find it hard to read tiny text so my zoom level is always between 120% and 150%. they fixed all my issues with this update and that made me happy.
I had a "Preview: Try the new layout and give us feedback" notification for about an hour, then it switched on permanently.
Optimistically, maybe they accidentally flipped a trial feature flag globally and it wasn't intended?
It's more telling that they didn't listen and pushed it out so quickly anyway.
...because usage of Github from mobile is so important /s
Still prefer that to this update