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Comment by Sachaniman | Hacker News Reader

I gave some negative feedback about it earlier regarding this change, but it seems I might have been a part of the minority.

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The feature preview process is a joke.

I was only given at most a couple of weeks to provide feedback which like everyone else here was negative.

But to have it launch now means that they never had any intention of listening to real feedback. They just wanted to see if there were any showstopper bugs.

I gave feedback too and never heard anything. The rounded corners look cartoonish, the header is terrible, moving releases and using a new column at the right is terrible. Seriously w-t-h are they thinking? there was literally nothing wrong with their existing UI.

I'd make the languages bar expanded by default, and for repositories where I rarely contribute hide file list elsewhere (like on mobile), bringing README to the top.

Also show latest release link with summary.

I gave negative feedback as well during the preview.

Really love that they ignored it...

Perhaps they got more positive feedback from people other than you?

Not necessarily. I've seen the concept of "vocal minority vs silent majority" used as justification to push through a change. So even if you get only bad feedback, it still goes through because most people said nothing, which means most people like it.

Or most people hated it but didn't love the product enough to care to comment. Perhaps the design of the feedback form matters. I wasn't part of the beta so I don't know how they asked.

They didn't ask, you have to go into the feature view menu (under profile) and then click a link there to go to another page and then have a form to fill out.

They know UX for sure!

Maybe we should send them a copy of Don't Make Me Think

Same here - but it also feels like I got the feature preview notification maybe a week before the feature actually launched, two weeks max. Didn't feel like enough time for me to properly test the new interface, or for them to properly evaluate feedback.

I gave negative feedback as well.

I definitely gave negative feedback on the preview and also now afterwards.

I gave some feedback on this as well but unfortunately I only saw the preview like, two days ago. Have I just missed it or did they not roll this preview out earlier?

I got it on 19th June (I remember because it was the day GitHub went down). I left feedback, but it feels like it would've been a foregone conclusion at that point.

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