It's indeed much better on mobile, since the old design not only hid most of the README, but also lacked many useful indicators from the desktop version (languages, releases, etc.)

The thing is, they just released an excellent app, which was seemingly meant to solve the problem of browsing GitHub on mobile. It's a bit surprising that this design, by many aspects, seems targeted towards mobile users and is already displaying more useful info than the app.

yes it an improvement. and not just mobile!

i always find it hard to read tiny text so my zoom level is always between 120% and 150%. they fixed all my issues with this update and that made me happy.

> That being said was there any warning/reasoning behind the change? I cannot find any announcements

I had a "Preview: Try the new layout and give us feedback" notification for about an hour, then it switched on permanently.

Optimistically, maybe they accidentally flipped a trial feature flag globally and it wasn't intended?

I tried out the preview several days ago and let them know what I thought.

It's more telling that they didn't listen and pushed it out so quickly anyway.

> Personally I think it's an improvement on mobile

...because usage of Github from mobile is so important /s

Since some projects use their github README as a landing page and the rise of termux, yeah I think it is important.

This was one of my biggest complaints, mobile was awful. Readme not fully visible.

Still prefer that to this update