Issue links now open in a popup

#1

Post by luckman212 » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:18 PM UTC

Issue links now open in a popup
github.com

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#2

Post by luckman212 » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:18 PM UTC

If anyone knows someone at GitHub and can tap them on the shoulder, please ask them to revert this terrible change.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#3

Post by binarybee » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

Links should be links. Stop making them into something else.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#4

Post by cebert » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:44 PM UTC

I wish they’d focus on making their platform reliable and more stable.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#5

Post by verdverm » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

luckman212 wrote: post #2

If anyone knows someone at GitHub and can tap them on the shoulder, please ask them to revert this terrible change.

Unfortunately GitHub, err Microsoft, stopped listening a long time ago. From the feed to text contrast to many more issues, their community feedback repo has become a place where complaints go to die.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#6

Post by mikkelam » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

Just improve what you have GitHub. Stop the AI bloatware. You will lose that race anyway, obviously.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#7

Post by willio58 » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC

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 that are in a way some of the most valuable products in the planet, are given a junior web dev and a “UX designer” who really doesn’t know anything about UX.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#8

Post by simonw » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

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.

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#9

Post by kernc » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

cebert wrote: post #4

I wish they’d focus on making their platform reliable and more stable.

Why would they care to empower competitors?

Re: Issue links now open in a popup

#10

Post by chuckadams » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

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 be forked with a click or two. Tree-style tabs are a baby step toward that, but I'm not seeing much interest out there in actually learning how to run.