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Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#61

Post by piptastic »

crtasm wrote: post #42
chuckadams wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Split tabs are now in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/split-view-firefox

Chrome also has split tabs since Feb '26

right click a link, open in split view

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#62

Post by anal_reactor »

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…

Recently I was buying furniture and it quickly became obvious that "Can I actually browse their catalogue?" is a requirement that really narrows down the search.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#63

Post by c-hendricks »

geerlingguy wrote: post #36
leni536 wrote: post #34

Great, the UX feature I probably hate the most in Jira, now on Github.

This was exactly my thought. It breaks every bit of intuition I have using a browser, and makes pages run even slower.

Every bit of intuition you have using a browser, really? You click a link, the current page changes, you click back, it goes away. You cmd/ctrl click it opens in a new window, you right click and select "open in new tab/window" and it opens in a new tab / window.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#64

Post by dboreham »

Super annoying when I saw this. Initially I assumed I'd strayed into some quadrant of the UI space I hadn't been in before. But no they just broke it for no reason. Well, presumably the reason was someone expected to get a bonus.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#65

Post by Figs »

I don't think GitHub has made a single UI change since ~2023 (when it went JS heavy) that I've liked. (Admittedly though, I've moved away from it for everything I have a choice about at this point, so it's possible they snuck in some good stuff when I wasn't looking.)

Also: having trouble getting this specific link to load -- just getting the unicorn error over and over.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#66

Post by Matt138 »

This was a performance driven change. We added this as loading a cross repo issue is a much slower experience than loading an issue in the same repo due to the way the header is loaded (which is being worked on).

But we hear you on the feedback - we will roll this back while we keep pushing on the root performance causes.

[update - this change has been reverted and the previous behaviour is back]

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#68

Post by Neywiny »

Matt138 wrote: post #66

This was a performance driven change. We added this as loading a cross repo issue is a much slower experience than loading an issue in the same repo due to the way the header is loaded (which is being worked on). But we hear you on the feedback - we will roll this back while we keep pushing on the root performance causes. [update - this change has been reverted and the previous behaviour is back]

Can you elaborate? The header meaning the top part of the page? I just checked on a recent repo I visited and it has the usual banner (which would stay the same), the repo path, some links, and some stats. Considering every page navigation would likely pull which links and stats are shown, why is this a delta to go to another repo and why are presumably 3 database entries (possible links, stars, forks) so slow?

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#69

Post by vbezhenar »

piptastic wrote: post #61
crtasm wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Split tabs are now in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/split-view-firefox

Chrome also has split tabs since Feb '26 right click a link, open in split view

I hate that feature and I hate that they keep bloating browser which was lightweight.

Just for the record.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#70

Post by snailmailman »

c-hendricks wrote: post #63
geerlingguy wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was exactly my thought. It breaks every bit of intuition I have using a browser, and makes pages run even slower.

Every bit of intuition you have using a browser, really? You click a link, the current page changes, you click back, it goes away. You cmd/ctrl click it opens in a new window, you right click and select "open in new tab/window" and it opens in a new tab / window.

Now, when you click a link in GitHub, the current page doesnt change. I want to look at the linked issue on its own page. That doesn’t occur anymore.

The page i wanted to go to pops up in a small overlay on the right hand side. The body text and content that I wanted to view is in a new, weird location, with the old page still behind it in the normal spot. It’s very unintuitive.

Thankfully either the behavior has reverted or I’m no longer in the A/B test. I can’t get the popup to happen anymore for me. (edit, nvm, behavior varies depending on repo or something? it acts completely differently on different pages, sometimes links are normal and sometimes they open in a popup. extremely annoying)

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