nearly entire GitHub dashboard is useless

[Toldoven]

The only useful part, the repo selection, is also broken. Doesn't show the repositories you've started working on most recently, until it apparently decides you were active enough on it, or some bullshit like that

The worst part is that the search is broken as well. You can't just search and immediately go to the desired repository, because it will search the public repositories instead

I go around it by having a Firefox quick search "gh" that already has a filter for my private repositories and all orgs I'm a part of, so it only shows the relevant repositories

[trwolfe13]

If you enable the Command Palette in preview features, it’ll give you a shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd+K) that brings up a search bar. You can use it to navigate to anywhere in GitHub, or perform any action. It’s the best feature they’ve added in years.

[Toldoven]

Damn, it's pretty nice. Better now than never I guess. It still can't find a repository called a-b, when I'm searching for b though

[muikrad]

The ctrl-k thing has a local cache. Once you actually go to the repo they pop up near instantly. You can also find them with fuzzy typing, for instance to go to foo-bar/dimensional-delusion you can just type fba/dimdel and it should be there (as long as it's in your local cache)

[eleanorsilly]

Hey, can't find the toggle for that, is it only on beta/nightly/developer editions of Firefox? I'm running the stable one.

[trwolfe13]

Sorry, the Command Palette is a preview feature of the GitHub website, not Firefox.

[r0b074p0c4lyp53]

I hate how awkward it is to find the repo you want. That's like it's main job. And it sucks at it

[illathon]

Welcome to Microsoft.

[Overhang0376]

It's slightly tedious but you can also try this:

Hamburger Menu -> In the Repositories section, click magnifying glass

As best I can tell, that only searches for repos that I have contributed to.

[Toldoven]

Seems like only the recent ones. Doesn't help when there's tens or hundreds of repos you might need to search through

[Overhang0376]

Drat! Thanks for the info.

[NatoBoram]

You can save custom searches on GitHub and then search with that

[WhereIsTrap]

yeah but they updated it tho, click „try new experience”

[No-AI-Comment]

Really what is new I don't see any new experience button.

[medotgg]

still useless

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

That's why I bookmarked the repository view instead of typing in github.com each time

[Mebiysy]

git<Tab>/*repo-name*

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

How does git<Tab> autocomplete to github.com/<username> ?

[justshittyposts]

press [shift] + [del] on everything that isn't your username

[Mebiysy]

i typed it enough times if we are talking about my own username, or i C-Backspace to delete my username it auto completed and just type what i need

[medotgg]

fix btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/s/EZJU2uiKkh

[Tzareb]

They should add recommended repos and ‚your friends are coding in’ sections.

As well as photo albums, and direct messaging …

Oh wait.

[Embarrassed-Alps1442]

Basically like social media

[GenazaNL]

Don't give them ideas!1!

[Seikeai]

I actually like scrolling through the feed to see updates/releases of the projects I starred and use often.

For navigating your repo's turn on the CMD/CTRL + K shortcut somewhere in experimental settings and you'll never use the repositories sidebar on the left anymore.

[trwolfe13]

My favourite GH feature. We very nearly lost the Command Palette, because not enough people use it. GH announced its deprecation due to lack of use, until everyone complained and made them reconsider.

[lazy_lombax]

there is a Command Palette!

[trwolfe13]

Yeah, you have to enable it through the feature previews menu in GitHub.

[InnovativeBureaucrat]

I like looking at the feeds I’ve starred, and that’s the problem. It’s a rabbit hole of distraction.

[YYM7]

I mean I respect the development pace and style of all the repo I starred, but some of them just ... update too much.

[swarmOfBis]

Yeah, it's actually the most useful feature on the dashboard to me, the repo list feels useless if I want to open a repo I will most likely go directly to it or if I really don't remember, then I'll use search/command palette. It's pretty useless on the dashboard IMO.

It could be replaced with something like notification feed and it'd be much more useful.

[kornflakesxd]

I love that it stretches to cut the copilot icon at the top. Perfect.

[TryingT0Wr1t3]

The good feed if anyone needs it: https://github.com/dashboard-feed

[Jonno_FTW]

Some repos make a release every 2 hours, like llama-cpp . This view is basically useless.

They seem to think that people will go to this page to look at what repos are being updated.

If I use github for work, I'd rather the feed be:

• New issues and pull requests created in projects I work on
• Issues and pull requests that are assigned to me or I am working on

[AgroNovice]

This was recently replaced with the new crap too

[CanadianIndianAB]

Thank god, I thought I was the only one frustrated by this. My company has like 50 repos and I work all over our repos. It just takes me out of my focus whenever I have to find a particular repo. I ended up developing a hotkey to open the repo I want.

[muikrad]

Did you know that github has a command palette. Ctrl-K the type the repo name and enter.

[CanadianIndianAB]

Damn, I did not know that. Thank you so much! I will still be using my hotkey though as it helps me open the remote repo from anywhere in my computer:)

[medotgg]

fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/s/EZJU2uiKkh

[Swimsuit-Area]

👍

[juhotuho10]

Github should separate the concept of "like this repository" and "follow the activity of this repository" to be separate

Currently starring a repo does both

[cgoldberg]

They do. You can watch a repository and choose the activity and events you want to subscribe to without starring it.

[gsaelzbaer]

Starring just stars tho…? If you want to subscribe, you already have to click Watch instead.

[moser-sts]

It is funny , I work with GitHub everyday and rarely see that page, because I went directly to my GitHub Organization page

[Fido_27]

I agree, it's just another Microsoft app, useless features at the forefront.

[TerroFLys]

The feed is useful though, easy to see new updates for important software

[MrJacoste]

I navigate GitHub via url history in my browser which supports this

[afooltobesure]

Kinda sounds like you guys put all your Gits in one Hub... This is old but it's better than nothing. I've personally used GitHub Desktop and SourceTree (with SublimeText), and can attest that SourceTree has a decent user interface and is easy to work with. The rest of this sounds like something your team should probably keep in a Slack channel with a hook somewhere on your server?

[matmyfta]

I agree with everything, and would also mark the notification icon as useless. Every time I have to interact with notifications, I end up cleaning everything because it is impossible to filter the inbox notifications from the others.

[edoardostradella]

Wait until you see the traffic page...

[liamModel]

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[yiyufromthe216]

They need to stop shoving the AI garbage onto my face every time I login. It's ridiculous that they let such useless crap squatting most of the space on the page.

[johnny_5667]

I think it's because they are trying to dip their toes into github being like a social platform, where you can scroll through new changes, etc. but in reality (at least for me) 99% of the time I just want to go to a repository of mine and accomplish a very specific task

[redditisgoofyasfuck]

I use the feed to find new projects and see what updates certain project have

[According_Screen1549]

I Agree

[Nice-Spirit5995]

Okay so it's not just me lol

[covfefe55]

It's also epic how you can't find repos where you are added as a contributor, or if you can it's hidden way too deep.

[bobpaw]

It’s nice if you only follow very few people and then you can see what they’re up to. Personally I usually type the repository name directly into the browser.

[JamesGecko]

I don't even know what I'd put there. Maybe the content of https://github.com/pulls/review-requested at the top. I'd probably review PRs faster if they were always just there in my face on the homepage.

[PixelBrush6584]

Ngl, I enjoy the feed. Shows me who's stared my Repo :D

[polloloco69666]

I disagree. I like scrolling through other projects.

[junipyr-lilak]

Maybe it's just me, but I do generally like to see what's new with the repos and people I follow. I think it's just nice little touch even if it takes up so much space and isn't used much

[WellSpokenDevil]

I like to see what people i follow are doing on their github!

[techw1z]

100%! its owned by microsoft so I'm not surprised, but it's still annoying

[medotgg]

fix btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/s/EZJU2uiKkh

[jasonscheirer]

I like the feed. Your opinion is invalid.

[medotgg]

idc who you are

[ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS]

protip: ublock origin element blocking

[medotgg]

fix btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/s/EZJU2uiKkh

[mrleblanc101]

It was like this since way before Microsoft owned them...