We do that a bit as well.

Now that I think about it maybe they just need an "awesome bar" for github; put in a sha, branch name, issue, tag, pull request, etc and it can auto-complete and take you there.

Also the network view could be really useful for managing projects if it were much faster and slightly better...

In general I just think that there are way too many similarly sized/colored buttons spread all over the place, so I never know where to look for what I need, and I can't ever quite tell where I am without much work.

I think the mental model of how to view and navigate the repo/network is not transparent or consistent. If they could nail that it would really help a ton.

Github devs: this is a sign that pretty though it may be, something is wrong.

I agree that this should spur the Github developers to re-consider their current design, but I see nothing wrong with the general concept of using URL:s for navigating, just as I prefer the Unix shell over GUI:s for many tasks.

Jakob Nielsen wrote about that over ten years ago: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html - I think the gist of his article still holds true.

And I thought I was the only one.

It's awesome that the URL scheme is 'right' and I can easily use it to get to where I need. But that just means the UI/UX is severely lacking.

I do the same. Probably browsers should have some support for this stuff. What I mean is that if I always visit: foobar.com/verb/<something> and urls where it's clear that there is a fixed part and a variable one, maybe the browser could help you writing this stuff easily, so that you start typing "github commit" and something to just fill with the missing pieces appear.

I do this using firefox bookmarks/keywords using %s.

For example, I use the bookmark http://www.reddit.com/r/%s with the keyword rdr so that I can just type "rdr programming" into the location bar to go to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming. It has made my browsing a whole lot faster.

You can replace /tree/master/filename by just pressing "t" on a project's page. Learned that a week or two ago and it changed my life.

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