We've been using the pancake emoji internally so we thought it was a fun easter egg. It'll only be up for a few hours and then will go back to the regular icons :)
Good. This change was unexpected and so unprofessional I though my browser was compromised.
You thought your browser was compromised? Pathetic.
My lord people accept a little bit of whimsey in your lives.
Remember when the Internet was a culture? Now you attempt the most tame possible attempt at that culture and people go into the Issue tracker to throw their little fit.
Funnily enough the two features that I've missed from phabricator are Stacked Diffs and the per-user opt-in whimsy mode, maybe GitHub can copy the latter next? :D
I was so happy when I saw that! There is joy and silliness left in GitHub! Thank you!
I liked it. It’s nice to have little fleeting moments of what I call “Classic Web” feel.
You should keep it for a bit longer
I liked that. I don't have a lot of good things to say about GitHub these days -- Microsoft has not been a kind owner -- so I found that moment of silliness encouraging.