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by dkdbejwi383 105 days ago
The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.

The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better.

I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and down randomly.

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Yeah…and I don’t burn my time watching videos unless it’s teaching me to fix an appliance, or do small home repairs…videos are for tricky in person stuff, screenshots and text are for apps.
> It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.

Yes, and including admin access to all your orgs :)

As the help text explains, you can tap to select or unselect any permissions beyond the basics. (Which are admittedly still quite broad.)

You can also use a PAT but that's already too much friction for me for something like this.

Justification of malfeasance is not an excuse.
But it's okay because

> Your access token is encrypted and stored securely. Only the permissions you grant will be used.

indeed. make a loom showing us why is better.
Came here to say exactly that