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Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by rad_gruchalski on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:36AM (#18938140)
This always annoys me with github on mobile. Why is it not possible to change to the desktop view permanent with a setting in the profile.
Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by giancarlostoro on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:12AM (#18938736)
I absolutely cannot stand how GitHub on a Mobile browser is, no offense to whoever works on that part of GitHub, it's not your fault. But I hate looking up code and finding a GitHub repository on my phone only to get a fragment of what the repository should show me. I want to see the whole damn README every single time.

I wish they would show me the whole README not force me to click on show in desktop mode. The fact they show that button tells me people've complained about the mobile mode enough, cause without that link I would just set my browser to render as a desktop browser.

I love GitHub but mobile UX is one thing that kills me about the web, and it's not GitHub's fault, lots of websites get it wrong, especially ad riddled sites, or sites that redirect you to their mobile page only to not take you to the original content.

Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by ramraj07 on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:43AM (#18938888)
At least on Android chrome you can check the desktop version option in the menu and get regular GitHub which is surprisingly very usable!
Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by giancarlostoro on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:13AM (#18939051)
Yeah you can do that on Firefox as well. Though they have a web URL to view the desktop version, which begs the question: do they get complaints about the mobile version? Why bother...
Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by kevinvdburgt on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:58AM (#18938224)
You can click on “Desktop version” at the bottom of the page when browsing mobile, but only the dashboard is responsive :(
Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by WorldMaker on Friday January 18, 2019 @12:19PM (#18940847)
This blog post says they are working on more full width and responsive pages, so maybe one day they'll get rid of the need for a separate "Mobile version".
Re:GitHub dashboard UI refresh by rad_gruchalski on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:41PM (#18941633)
Yes, I do that. Every second day! Cookies expire.