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Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by xprueg »

chuckadams wrote: post #10
willio58 wrote: post #7

It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX. Just last night I was helping my GF set up an ad for her job on LinkedIn. The UX was terrible. Like awful and basic things like save and exit were completely broken. Meanwhile LinkedIn makes what percentage of their revenue through ads? Same with google ads. It’s like these products…

I don't think there is such a thing as perfect UX and I'm not asking for it. I just want them to stop making it worse . Seriously tho, why isn't this something that a browser can do? Why can't I just split a tab and say all links from the left tab open in the right? Why not be able to scroll through history as a list of such panes like a smalltalk browser or file explorer on a mac? Maybe even a history tree, able to…

Just in case you aren’t aware, Edge can split a tab and open links from the left side on the right.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by Delgan »

Alas, GitHub has been plagued by bugs and UX regressions year after year.

I reported a bug last year about being unable to quote code blocks. It's quite a basic yet fundamental feature, right? They acknowledged the bug and moved on. To this day, quoting a block of code is still broken [1].

They simply don't care. I suppose their attention is focused on other subjects...

Anyway, I kind of accepted the "enshitification" of things I used to like. Fortunately, in this case, we can still hack our way around using custom userscripts [2].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/github-bug-cant-quote-blocks-of-code-Z9O...

[2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192665#discuss...

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by fmorel »

red_admiral wrote: post #17

There's browser extensions to bring back more user control on youtube, facebook, trello* and many others; looks like someone should make one for github soon. *the markdown enabler needs updating last I checked

There's already something like this for GitHub: https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by denverllc »

HeavyStorm wrote: post #11

This title is misleading: yes, a bunch of users didn't liked it. But of course there's UI research and likely A/B testing showed github that this might be preferable to the majority of users. Personally, I don't like it much. It sounds like leakage from AzDO design. Maybe a option to turn it off would be the best way out. Disclaimer: I work for msft, although I've no connection to github, ado or any other such tool.

> A/B testing showed github that this might be preferable

A/B testing can’t measure preference, only interaction.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by mwalser »

It's interesting to see that the UX issues that are annoying me when using Azure DevOps are finding their way into GitHub.

In case they are truly chasing Azure DevOps level UX, I would recommend they implement an HTML editor for issues that, depending on whether the user has dark mode or light mode enabled, saves some CSS of the respective mode and makes it unreadable if read within the other mode.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by Polizeiposaune »

simonw wrote: post #8
willio58 wrote: post #7

It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX. Just last night I was helping my GF set up an ad for her job on LinkedIn. The UX was terrible. Like awful and basic things like save and exit were completely broken. Meanwhile LinkedIn makes what percentage of their revenue through ads? Same with google ads. It’s like these products…

UX is really, really hard - and for some reason still not fully respected as a discipline.

Fast track to loss of respect:

I visit a site/launch the app I always use with the intent of getting something done quickly, and I find that since the last time I used it someone's rearranged the deck chairs and hidden or removed the functionality I need. Something that should take a minute or two suddenly becomes rage-inducing and eats an entire day.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by cjbgkagh »

chuckadams wrote: post #16
cjbgkagh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Win8 and Metro design disaster is what happens when you give UX free rein, instead of focusing on users they try to start design trends to impress other UX / designers (essential for their career). I wonder how much of Apples design was basically ‘if you confuse Steve Jobs you’re fired.’ And this acted as a necessary governing force to counteract the need to impress peers.

Metro was a wonderful design for the media player app it was made for. It's great for menu-heavy interactions, not so much for representing stateful things like options and checkboxes and such. Metro isn't the problem, it's trying to shoehorn UIs into it regardless of fit that is.

I don’t agree, but that’s design, people have different opinions. I actually like the Ribbon interface, would have liked it more if they added a search box to it as well but designers hate search boxes.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #13
simonw wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UX is really, really hard - and for some reason still not fully respected as a discipline.

The Win8 and Metro design disaster is what happens when you give UX free rein, instead of focusing on users they try to start design trends to impress other UX / designers (essential for their career). I wonder how much of Apples design was basically ‘if you confuse Steve Jobs you’re fired.’ And this acted as a necessary governing force to counteract the need to impress peers.

Part of UX is leveraging what users are already familiar with.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

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Post by faangguyindia »

willio58 wrote: post #7

It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX. Just last night I was helping my GF set up an ad for her job on LinkedIn. The UX was terrible. Like awful and basic things like save and exit were completely broken. Meanwhile LinkedIn makes what percentage of their revenue through ads? Same with google ads. It’s like these products…

The other day I was visiting intercom support tool

I realized it has morphed into completely unusable tool with so many features that i don't even know what to do inside it anymore.

Same pattern I saw in many other tools and product. As time passes software becomes more and more complex, then a new one comes which simplifies something and then it also morphs into some enterprise behemoth

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