Ask HN: Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client?

Re:Ask HN: Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client? by davydm on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:24AM (#41565910)

Are you asking for a Github client in particular, or a git client? if the latter, there are several to choose from, some paid, some free (personally, I like lazygit, but I've used Tower (meh), Git Kraken (quite good, but heavy and not completely free), the built-ins in Jetbrains products, and, ofc the git cli.

If you're asking about the former - something to provide a new view on all the GitHub things like PR, then I don't know of one (though some of the GUI git clients have PR functionality built-in).

I used Refined Github for a while, but ended up stopping as most of the useful stuff (for me, at least) in there appears to be natively available on github.com.

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Re:Ask HN: Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client? by brunobrito on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:58AM (#41566062)

Would love to know what you found disappointing in Tower!

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Re:Ask HN: Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client? by impsy_fr on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:53AM (#41567610)

Yeah, I'm mostly asking about a Github client

Something that would help with PR and Issue discussions,but my biggest beef is really with Actions and associated the UI/UX

I feel like they are really good at doing the job but not very good at showing it (and when somethings goes wrong it's really painful)

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Re:Ask HN: Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client? by solardev on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @08:01PM (#41574198)

Can't you use the actions API to send the error somewhere else, to a logging/reporting platform of your choice?

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