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I didn't mean to devalue the challenge of implementing and testing a new feature. All I'm saying is that it wouldn't require much problem solving. It'd just be a sorted list, perhaps with the ability to reorder and resize items with some JavaScript. The GitHub devs are obviously skilled coders, and have many JavaScript ninjas among them.

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Personally, I am under the same impression as yours. Adding a custom order functionality should not be that difficult, even with all these types of repos (forks, private, org, etc). I would benefit from such a feature, as would my colleagues. But maybe there's a deeply nested technical debt that prevents them from doing that atm.

I was just bringing up the similarity between your apparent devaluation of the challenges a new feature brings, with my project manager's ability of adding "sure, done by tomorrow" features during demos :D

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