Check out the discussion threads where Github solicits feedback. The latest update is a regression in pretty much every sense.
In terms of performance, pages were slow to render because Github reinvented the textbox widget. Even searching within the page was fucked because redrawing was so slow. We're talking nearly a second of lag even though this virtualization bullshit was done ostensibly "so that the page is faster to load and snappier responsively".
The UI itself is increasingly cluttered with random widgets. A symbol explorer that cannot cope with non-default branches. A news feed of github.com related news that I can't dismiss. A personalized news feed full of repositories I'm not even remotely interested in. Ads for copilot.
The whiz bang text widget failed to account for multibyte characters. Emoji and non-Latin characters weren't displayed properly, and in one of the feedback threads an end user had to explain how strings work in Javascript.
The site itself is completely broken in the version of Safari that I use. Elements get positioned off the page.
There are tons of visual distractions e.g. that symbol explorer pops up when you click on some symbols, making text selection more difficult.
Keyboard navigation doesn't work (as it's not been implemented in their custom whiz bang text widget). I saw a few complaints that the whiz bang text widget randomly adds parens and indents and becomes blurry while scrolliing (as there are occasionally mismatches between the Github custom whiz bang thing and what the browser does).
The nav bar is a mess. The initial public release even eschewed any branch navigation, so if you scrolled down you couldn't easily jump to another or tell what branch you were on. Now they only hide branch navigation some of the time, depending on which size navbar you're allowed to have at the moment. As you scroll through a page the navbar itself jumps all over the place and changes size a few times.
The hyperlinks generated from Markdown are broken in a variety of ridiculous ways, the hyperlinks from the site itself are often no longer anchor tags (breaking accessibility and common sense).
Like everything else, code search is not branch aware. Given how much Github was hyping up the new search I really hope the ability to search a non-default branch is just hidden. But given how much the Github UX team loves scattering notification badges everywhere to highlight new features, I doubt it. Searching within the page got similar treatment and is more or less incompatible with the whiz bang text widget (Firefox only seemed to find things that were on the currently visible section of the page).
I've no idea if it's related but issue search has become nearly useless (for me). If I search for a term there's an awful good chance it isn't actually used in any of the issues returned.
In terms of performance, pages were slow to render because Github reinvented the textbox widget. Even searching within the page was fucked because redrawing was so slow. We're talking nearly a second of lag even though this virtualization bullshit was done ostensibly "so that the page is faster to load and snappier responsively".
The UI itself is increasingly cluttered with random widgets. A symbol explorer that cannot cope with non-default branches. A news feed of github.com related news that I can't dismiss. A personalized news feed full of repositories I'm not even remotely interested in. Ads for copilot.
The whiz bang text widget failed to account for multibyte characters. Emoji and non-Latin characters weren't displayed properly, and in one of the feedback threads an end user had to explain how strings work in Javascript.
The site itself is completely broken in the version of Safari that I use. Elements get positioned off the page.
There are tons of visual distractions e.g. that symbol explorer pops up when you click on some symbols, making text selection more difficult.
Keyboard navigation doesn't work (as it's not been implemented in their custom whiz bang text widget). I saw a few complaints that the whiz bang text widget randomly adds parens and indents and becomes blurry while scrolliing (as there are occasionally mismatches between the Github custom whiz bang thing and what the browser does).
The nav bar is a mess. The initial public release even eschewed any branch navigation, so if you scrolled down you couldn't easily jump to another or tell what branch you were on. Now they only hide branch navigation some of the time, depending on which size navbar you're allowed to have at the moment. As you scroll through a page the navbar itself jumps all over the place and changes size a few times.
The hyperlinks generated from Markdown are broken in a variety of ridiculous ways, the hyperlinks from the site itself are often no longer anchor tags (breaking accessibility and common sense).
Like everything else, code search is not branch aware. Given how much Github was hyping up the new search I really hope the ability to search a non-default branch is just hidden. But given how much the Github UX team loves scattering notification badges everywhere to highlight new features, I doubt it. Searching within the page got similar treatment and is more or less incompatible with the whiz bang text widget (Firefox only seemed to find things that were on the currently visible section of the page).
I've no idea if it's related but issue search has become nearly useless (for me). If I search for a term there's an awful good chance it isn't actually used in any of the issues returned.
My favorite comment was this:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24989439/258012882...
For someone locked into a Github workflow, an alternative front end might be a nice thing to have.