Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

Its much worse when you are using an ultrawide monitor. Before this change I can just look at the center of the monitor and see all important things, while now I can feel my eyeball moving trying to read everytihng

I think it's really strange that they redesigned it, but still do not have settings to use the full width...

For me it is a bad and unnecessary rework. Exactly the kind where they break a functional design that was refined for multiple years. And they break it just for a product management/ marketing reason to have 'something new'.

Both on desktop and mobile there are a lot of useful info lost and at the same time, low density and a lot of empty space. But in addition there is no coherence.

For me, the mobile experience is illustrative. Look at the screenshot examples there: https://twitter.com/greatgib42/status/1275703359283122183?s=...

If you had no knowledge, you could think that after was in fact before.

Issues that I can see:

- No part of the readme/description visible anymore.

- Stupidly lost space, like nothing anymore in the top bar to use additional line.

- stars count was smart before by being on the button itself. Now one big empty button and a separate counter.

- for commit, issues, project... Everything was directly visible before. Now, a horizontal scroll is needed. I hate having to horizontally scroll on mobile web. (But maybe it is just me)

They are able to completly redesign the layout but adding a TOC feature to their Markdown, no way.

Please add a TOC Feature! Use what you have with github pages and Markdown!

Scrolling feels jankier on large syntax highlighted pages.

The livesearch loses focus, then selects the whole item if you pause for a second. If you then continue, the search is borked.

If you search fo something in an organization, the next time you try to search it searches the whole site.