Re:GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
by haberman on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:14PM
(#11088688)
Totally agree.
A few examples for me:
- From a "pull request / files" view like this (https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/1191/files), when I want to view a whole file, I always want to click on the filename. But the filename isn't a link: you have to look at the right side and click the button that is generically named "View" (View what?).
- At the top level of a repo (ie https://github.com/google/protobuf), you can click "X commits" to view the list of commits. But when you go into a subdirectory (ie. https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/benchmarks) the "commits" link disappears, and to view the commits in that directory you have to look on the right side instead for a button that says "History".
- continuing from my last point, if you view an individual file, (ie. https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/benchmarks/Pr...), the "History" link is in yet another place! So between the top level, a subdirectory, and a file, the link to view history is in three different places. I don't follow these links quite often enough that it becomes automatic, so it slows me down every time.
A few examples for me:
- From a "pull request / files" view like this (https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/1191/files), when I want to view a whole file, I always want to click on the filename. But the filename isn't a link: you have to look at the right side and click the button that is generically named "View" (View what?).
- At the top level of a repo (ie https://github.com/google/protobuf), you can click "X commits" to view the list of commits. But when you go into a subdirectory (ie. https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/benchmarks) the "commits" link disappears, and to view the commits in that directory you have to look on the right side instead for a button that says "History".
- continuing from my last point, if you view an individual file, (ie. https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/benchmarks/Pr...), the "History" link is in yet another place! So between the top level, a subdirectory, and a file, the link to view history is in three different places. I don't follow these links quite often enough that it becomes automatic, so it slows me down every time.