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I was not expecting to see this comment at the top of this thread but since it is here… this UI really sucks on mobile (at least on iOS).

A couple of immediate problems:

1) I am no longer able to visually distinguish folders from files, where did the folder icon disappear?

2) Swiping back is weird, sometimes it does work, sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, it either leaves me with a blank screen, or loads back what I just swiped away.

3) This really aggravates me, swipe back doesn’t preserve scroll position on long file listings, it renders the contents and scrolls to the top. This is really bad.

4) Where’s the footer?!

5) The whole thing just feels slow.

GitHub ui is getting worse on mobile as time goes. For example, why can’t I fork a repo from the mobile page?

I don’t know how you measure how your UI is used but I don’t think me browsing the code while sitting on the throne, or looking up a piece of code while laying in bed is so unusual. Maybe some of you should try that before such half baked stuff is released with much fanfare. Because the way I read it is “we’re excited to announce that we have broken your GitHub experience”.

Yep, aware of these mobile issues and are actively fixing them, will hopefully improve in the next week or so.

And thanks for the feedback. We're in Beta right now exactly so we can get feedback so please don't hesitate to reach out (in-app, via Discussions https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/cod..., or any other way you can reach us), even if it's something minor

If you’re in beta, how come do I see all this half finished stuff? Your beta features are usually behind a feature flag?

I'm guessing you are in our Code Search Technology Preview (which was at cs.github.com), which gives you access to this new UI as well.

By the way, feel free to opt out if you hate the new UI - it's super easy to opt out from the code view page, or from the feature preview menu.

Thanks, that fixed all my problems.

> GitHub ui is getting worse on mobile as time goes

Like Reddit, they’re probably trying to push you to the mobile app.

Not the case, the mobile app is great, but we know developers use mobile web. It matters to us. Will definitely improve it

Have you fixed the problem where opening any moderately large document in chrome on android would just lock up chrome entirely? :)

The editor was clearly trying to load the whole thing!

We have fixed it behind a feature flag that isn't yet rolled out. Still experimenting with it. But expect to see that resolved in the next couple weeks

Never. I often just look up some specific lines, copy links to those lines, send to slack or similar. Not sure how would that work with an app.

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