> Yeah, I’m surprised at the negativity here.
It shouldn't be. The dashboard literally doesn't work. There are features on the dashboard that literally do not work. There are features on the dashboard that lie to you. You cannot trust the dashboard.
It's also not necessarily useful because, while it might put my stuff in front, it's not the stuff I care about. And I don't care about all my stuff all the time. Why should I care about a pull request that I have open on a random repo from January? Why should that be one of the top items that I need to address?
More importantly, why can't I resolve it from here?
Why does the copilot chat not work? It doesn't. You type something in, you hit Enter. It takes you to another page. You leave that page, you go back to the dashboard. The dashboard doesn't work because it's blank, and the copilot chat never got sent. And you lost your prompt. GitHub lost my content. I put content into GitHub, and that content is no longer in GitHub. That is user-destructive behavior. It's horrible.
Let me be clear: I put data into GitHub. I hit submit. It took me to another page, and that data went missing. It's just chat, but it's still chat. It's still something I entered. I hit submit, and it's gone. That's from this new dashboard. That alone should be negativity enough.
I'm not asking GitHub to create me the perfect dashboard. What I am saying is that the dashboard that they provided is fairly useless. So useless that, of the entire dashboard, there are only two small little links in the middle of the top repositories that are remotely useful, and there's no way for me to sit there and manage all this stuff. Even if you filter stuff down, the filter options are so pathetically worthless that I don't know why they bothered. I'm not asking GitHub to create me the perfect dashboard. What I am saying is that the dashboard that they provided is fairly useless. So useless that of the entire dashboard, there's only two small little links in the middle of the top repositories that are remotely useful, and there's no way for me to sit there and manage all this stuff. Even if you filter stuff down, the filter options are so pathetically worthless that I don't know why they bothered.
If the goal of the dashboard was to make it easy for you to do your GitHub work, to get stuff done, then for me, they failed tremendously. I'm a developer. I've been a developer for many decades, and I like what I do. GitHub, for all its faults, has pieces that work really well, but the dashboard is absolutely not one of them. I feel like the dashboard is run by the same people who do the code review stuff, and they don't know what they're doing. They've done the dashboard. They've checked it off. They said, "Now you see your stuff front and center," and it's like, "Yay," but it's not stuff you care about.
So sure. We're not at the bottom of the trash anymore, but we're still in a pile of trash.