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by zwieback 503 days ago
Github is the worst of the web GUIs I use regularly. Started bad and only got worse, luckily 99% of my gitting is via PC based tools. Maybe this is the kind of app where the GUI should be modeled on client side developer tools and not modern web UIs.
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Trasmatta 503 days ago
Historically I've thought the GitHub web UI was great - clean, usable, simple. Over the past couple of years it's started to get more and more feature bloat, to the point where it's becoming less usable.
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Aeolun 503 days ago
I feel like file browsing and pull requests actually got better? That’s what I use 99% of the time.

Projects is a mixed bag, but not terrible. I feel like Github is generally good at making things as complex as they need to be, and no more.

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inferiorhuman 501 days ago
Thinking back on it I've used Github nearly since the early 10s. Today I find myself wondering how the fuck I get a list of all issues for a project. For fifteen odd years I've been able to clear the search box of the "is:open" and "is:whateverfuckingelse" bits and just get a list.

Now? Whatever UI update they've just pushed isn't reflected in the documentation. I can't think of anything that's been improved since GH decided to reinvent text rendering (and poorly at that) and then double down on it.

Upon further inspection it sort of works if I log in. It behaves differently at least. Ugh.

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cdaringe 501 days ago
What’s your actual problem statement? Are you suggesting that repo /issues is too complex to find issues?
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inferiorhuman 501 days ago
I'm not suggesting anything. I'm stating that it's impossible to get a simple list of issues for a project.
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zwieback 503 days ago
I've only used Github desktop briefly so I can't say much about it, was commenting on the web UI. I suppose if I was using a lot of GitHub functionality vs. just using github.com as a repo things might be different and I'd give Github desktop another try.
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Trasmatta 503 days ago
Sorry, that's what I meant actually, the web UI. I said desktop to differentiate it from the mobile web UI, but I realize that was the wrong way to say it because they also have a desktop app.
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