And we do intend to write a blog post with more details in the coming weeks.
A couple of immediate problems:
1) I am no longer able to visually distinguish folders from files, where did the folder icon disappear?
2) Swiping back is weird, sometimes it does work, sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, it either leaves me with a blank screen, or loads back what I just swiped away.
3) This really aggravates me, swipe back doesn’t preserve scroll position on long file listings, it renders the contents and scrolls to the top. This is really bad.
4) Where’s the footer?!
5) The whole thing just feels slow.
GitHub ui is getting worse on mobile as time goes. For example, why can’t I fork a repo from the mobile page?
I don’t know how you measure how your UI is used but I don’t think me browsing the code while sitting on the throne, or looking up a piece of code while laying in bed is so unusual. Maybe some of you should try that before such half baked stuff is released with much fanfare. Because the way I read it is “we’re excited to announce that we have broken your GitHub experience”.
And thanks for the feedback. We're in Beta right now exactly so we can get feedback so please don't hesitate to reach out (in-app, via Discussions https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/cod..., or any other way you can reach us), even if it's something minor
By the way, feel free to opt out if you hate the new UI - it's super easy to opt out from the code view page, or from the feature preview menu.
Like Reddit, they’re probably trying to push you to the mobile app.
The editor was clearly trying to load the whole thing!
We're changing an website that millions of people use every day. Hopefully we mostly have a positive impact. But if we're making it worse, even in a small way, that matters a lot to be aware of.
Masters of subjects don’t learn overnight. They learn over years, decades, a lifetime. In that time they make countless mistakes. But they persevere and don’t let it affect them emotionally and they grow into those masters.
I make mistakes daily. I’ve thrown away hundreds of thousands of lines of code in my career because it didn’t work as expected. But each time I grew a little and learned something to make the next iteration better.
Secondly, the code search feature is nice, but is there a reason why it has to be a column to the right, couldn't it be part of the editor, like we're used to in most editors nowadays.
A gripe I've had recently with github, is just that it all seems so slow. It feels like trudging through mud, it may be, because I don't live in the US. But this is getting out of hand, and makes me want to consider leaving it for something else.
Sorry for the rant, I like progress, I just don't like unneeded complexity, especially for a tool I love =D
> static view of the core
Not sure what you mean by that, can you elaborate?
FWIW we are working to more tightly integrate code search into the code view.
And absolutely, performance matters a lot to us. Sorry for the slow experience, you're not the only one, particularly outside the US. Only thing I can say is we're working on it.
Anyways best of luck to you. It hasn't been an easy year for github with the downtime earlier in the year, and what I would expect to be a nasty migration from a monolith =D