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Comment by Trasmatta | Hacker News Reader

Historically I've thought the GitHub web UI was great - clean, usable, simple. Over the past couple of years it's started to get more and more feature bloat, to the point where it's becoming less usable.

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I feel like file browsing and pull requests actually got better? That’s what I use 99% of the time.

Projects is a mixed bag, but not terrible. I feel like Github is generally good at making things as complex as they need to be, and no more.

Thinking back on it I've used Github nearly since the early 10s. Today I find myself wondering how the fuck I get a list of all issues for a project. For fifteen odd years I've been able to clear the search box of the "is:open" and "is:whateverfuckingelse" bits and just get a list.

Now? Whatever UI update they've just pushed isn't reflected in the documentation. I can't think of anything that's been improved since GH decided to reinvent text rendering (and poorly at that) and then double down on it.

Upon further inspection it sort of works if I log in. It behaves differently at least. Ugh.

What’s your actual problem statement? Are you suggesting that repo /issues is too complex to find issues?

I'm not suggesting anything. I'm stating that it's impossible to get a simple list of issues for a project.

I've only used Github desktop briefly so I can't say much about it, was commenting on the web UI. I suppose if I was using a lot of GitHub functionality vs. just using github.com as a repo things might be different and I'd give Github desktop another try.

Sorry, that's what I meant actually, the web UI. I said desktop to differentiate it from the mobile web UI, but I realize that was the wrong way to say it because they also have a desktop app.

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