Issue links now open in a popup

luckman212

If anyone knows someone at GitHub and can tap them on the shoulder, please ask them to revert this terrible change.

binarybee

Links should be links. Stop making them into something else.

cebert

I wish they’d focus on making their platform reliable and more stable.

mikkelam

Just improve what you have GitHub. Stop the AI bloatware. You will lose that race anyway, obviously.

willio58

It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX. Just last night I was helping my GF set up an ad for her job on LinkedIn. The UX was terrible. Like awful and basic things like save and exit were completely broken. Meanwhile LinkedIn makes what percentage of their revenue through ads? Same with google ads. It’s like these products that are in a way some of the most valuable products in the planet, are given a junior web dev and a “UX designer” who really doesn’t know anything about UX.

HeavyStorm

This title is misleading: yes, a bunch of users didn't liked it. But of course there's UI research and likely A/B testing showed github that this might be preferable to the majority of users. Personally, I don't like it much. It sounds like leakage from AzDO design. Maybe a option to turn it off would be the best way out. Disclaimer: I work for msft, although I've no connection to github, ado or any other such tool.

qwertyforce

It will probably suffer the same fate as the most-upvoted discussion of all time in the GitHub Community repo: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188 no reaction

add-sub-mul-div

Last week there was a new Plex update to their already bad new redesign where they changed the main font. And I hated it, but it also reminded me, this font may not be objectively worse than the last one so much as the regular change is what has made me come to hate using the app. We don't give enough credit to maintaining the status quo. If software was getting better and discomfort with new designs was a tax we had to pay, then fine. That was still the world of ten years ago, perhaps. Now we're deeply into the era of software getting worse. The design changes from employees who have full time permanent jobs and need to make themselves busy aren't balancing actual progress.

red_admiral

There's browser extensions to bring back more user control on youtube, facebook, trello* and many others; looks like someone should make one for github soon. *the markdown enabler needs updating last I checked

NooneAtAll3

I still don't understand what's the point of any full screen popups are

Delgan

Alas, GitHub has been plagued by bugs and UX regressions year after year. I reported a bug last year about being unable to quote code blocks. It's quite a basic yet fundamental feature, right? They acknowledged the bug and moved on. To this day, quoting a block of code is still broken [1]. They simply don't care. I suppose their attention is focused on other subjects... Anyway, I kind of accepted the "enshitification" of things I used to like. Fortunately, in this case, we can still hack our way around using custom userscripts [2]. [1] https://imgur.com/a/github-bug-cant-quote-blocks-of-code-Z9O... [2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192665#discuss...

shevy-java

Interesting to see that Microsoft is now also ruining the old UI. That was the only advantage GitHub would still have over Gitlab, as Gitlab's UI was always horrible. And now Microsoft nerfs GitHub here. This is epic.

mwalser

It's interesting to see that the UX issues that are annoying me when using Azure DevOps are finding their way into GitHub. In case they are truly chasing Azure DevOps level UX, I would recommend they implement an HTML editor for issues that, depending on whether the user has dark mode or light mode enabled, saves some CSS of the respective mode and makes it unreadable if read within the other mode.

leni536

Great, the UX feature I probably hate the most in Jira, now on Github.

kreyenborgi

It took me a while to realize it was not a bug. Utterly insane that this went through QA.

rochacon

And they pushed this as every major browser introduced a "Split View" feature... I get this issue preview on Projects, although I don't like it there either, but as a hook on any issue link is just terrible UX, zero benefits IMHO.

janaagaard

It sounds like the root issue is that some people prefer opening new tabs while others prefer staying in the same browser window. I surfed the web when all links, even across websites always stayed in the same browser window, and I still prefer that. But I can understand that some people prefer opening new browser tabs instead. I think web browsers should revisit how they handle links with target=_blank/_top, and show different cursers when hovering and let users customize the default behavior.

naikrovek

This is why I kind of think that UI/UX should be handled by normal developers who do other things as well. People whose sole job is UI/UX must do things like this in order to stay employed, normal developers don’t. So teach normal developers how to think about UI and UX so that changes stop happening solely because a specialist needs to change something that does not need changing. Sorry, UI/UX people, but if you were proceeding towards some finely crafted experience, you’d have honed in on it by now. You would have a set of rules that could be followed to present information in both a pleasing way and a useful way simultaneously and everyone would know how things work because everyone followed the same rules. None of that has happened. You are just changing things to change them.

dboreham

Super annoying when I saw this. Initially I assumed I'd strayed into some quadrant of the UI space I hadn't been in before. But no they just broke it for no reason. Well, presumably the reason was someone expected to get a bonus.

Figs

I don't think GitHub has made a single UI change since ~2023 (when it went JS heavy) that I've liked. (Admittedly though, I've moved away from it for everything I have a choice about at this point, so it's possible they snuck in some good stuff when I wasn't looking.) Also: having trouble getting this specific link to load -- just getting the unicorn error over and over.