I really like the new GitHub dashboard (have been using it for a while now), but the thing that's really annoying me is how on mobile browsers it has much less comment (missing the activity feed). Then, when you go to the desktop version, it turns out they have a perfectly fine responsive version of the full activity feed, too! So why not enable that in the mobile version directly?
I don't honestly know what they are talking about (unless there are some new changes they are gradually rolling out and I haven't received the update yet).<p>Left column: 7 repos I'm contributing to (out of a few dozen), 7 teams I'm a part of (out of about 12)<p>Middle column taking up ~70% of screen width: 3-4 updates from "recent activity" which has a lag of a few minutes (my own PRs don't show up there until after some long unspecified time).<p>This is followed by "All activity" which is more of the same, but with way more wasted space. But since GitHub seems to think it's a social network, it's also flooded by things like "Your friend starred a repo you don't care about".<p>Right column: Discover repositories. Three repositories from projects I may or may not care about.<p>How is this useful in any way? Oh. The right column also boasts a text which reads "Welcome to the new dashboard. Get closer to the stuff you care about most." which is a link to the Github Blog post above.
Fix-width layouts are a pet peeve of mine. What's the point of having a large monitor with 1920 or 2048 pixels in the middle, if the content only takes up like 40% of it.
> <i>updated dashboards to surface personalized repository suggestions</i><p>This implies that a LOT of people visit GH in search of new and exciting repositories to... erm... hrm... why exactly would anyone EVER do that?
So it's uhhh... wider, with distractions on the side. Often breaks my concentration when loading up GitHub to find an issue of a particular project. A net downgrade IMO.
What GitHub needs is to copy the review queue from Stash/bitbucket server.<p>1. All the PRs you (or one of your groups) is an assigned reviewer of that you've interacted with and have since been updated.<p>2. All the PRs you (or one of your groups) is an assigned reviewer of that you've never interacted with.<p>3. All the PRs you (or one of your groups) is an assigned reviewer of that you've marked as lower priority for you.<p>Currently you can only find out if you're assigned in the depths of the UI and have to navigate to individual PRs to see if action is required.<p>That is what the dashboard needs, not suggested repositories (disclaimer, I use my employers GitHub enterprise instance way more and I'm not active enough to be an assigned reviewed on any GitHub.com repo, so maybe that has it now and it's not trickled down to enterprise)
I'm not sure why, but on an up-to-date firefox (64.0.2) running on Windows 10 I cannot see the changes. When I open in Chrome (71.0.3578.98) it shows the changes. Also on firefox the login link at the top of the page shows up in a "hamburger" menu and the page loads scrolled down to about half page neither of which affect chrome.
Undoubtedly this refresh is directly correlated with the Microsoft acquisition. A new designer and a new PM like to make their mark on a product for better or for worse