Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#11

Post by causalmodels » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

It is wild that amidst all these platform stability issues, GH has decided now is the time to do cutesy marketing for a new feature

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#12

Post by caug37 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

jk89b7 wrote: post #7

It's probably to advertise the Stacked PRs feature: https://github.github.com/gh-stack Not cute..I thought something had been compromised when I initially saw it.

yeah was prepping to spend a lot of the day waiting for bigger attacks on other systems

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#13

Post by jlund-molfese » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

Imagine being a new GitHub user and you're trying to find the menu. Realizing that you have to click on a bunch of pancakes to get where you need to go would be pretty annoying.

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#14

Post by lfx » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

Why so much hate.

I think this is brilliant way to announce new features!

It is playful, it is nice, it is something new. Don't take it too seriously.

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#15

Post by herpdyderp » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

lfx wrote: post #14

Why so much hate. I think this is brilliant way to announce new features! It is playful, it is nice, it is something new. Don't take it too seriously.

How in the world was I supposed to find out that it was a feature announcement without searching new Hacker News posts?

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#16

Post by coolaj86 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

I did some tech support yesterday and there were 4 different search bars on the screen and several "hamburger" or "triple dot" menus. It was a nightmare trying to communicate "the search bar in the middle left menu list" and "the triple dot on the right below the search bar".

Considering that Github's new target market is people who don't know how to read or code, I think this is a genius move.

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#17

Post by CLF7 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 8:41 PM UTC

It's funny to see that people here are more stressed out. Relax, this isn't going to break your production.

Re: Ask HN: Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?

#18

Post by bold_iggl » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

Yes, I saw the pancake 24 hours ago or so. Now it's gone. Gonna check the bin or something.