[HN Gopher] The Past, Present, and Future of UI at GitHub
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The Past, Present, and Future of UI at GitHub
Author : mooreds
Score : 21 points
Date : 2025-01-24 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| nsm wrote:
| I am curious to understand what bearing "lots and lots of regular
| people solely use their cellphone to conduct consumer
| transactions" has on GitHub, whose audience is significantly
| different than median and cannot otherwise function without a
| laptop/desktop.
| simonw wrote:
| I frequently use GitHub on my phone, making edits to my
| projects using their web edit button. And I have a very decent
| laptop.
|
| I wish Codespaces worked better on mobile! It would be great to
| see them invest more work in that.
|
| Anecdotally I've heard that there are people out there who have
| successfully learned to program entirely on mobile devices.
| a1o wrote:
| I don't know but I really wish it was possible to have the web
| desktop in mobile, GitHub has a terrible app that can't do
| anything and even worse mobile view. In the past it was
| possible to tell it to run the desktop version of the website
| with the browser setting but this isn't possible anymore. I
| have a very big phone, it's screen has a ton of pixels, just
| give me a grown up UI exactly like the desktop instead of the
| dumbed down, way too zoomed in whatever thing you are offering
| on mobile.
| simonw wrote:
| > According to Pew Research
| https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ 15
| percent of U.S. adults only access the internet through a mobile
| device.
|
| That number seemed surprising to me - I actually expected the
| portion of mobile-only internet users would be significantly
| higher than that.
|
| Turns out the 15% number means something slightly different. From
| that Pew Research page:
|
| "Today, 15% of U.S. adults are "smartphone-only" internet users -
| meaning they own a smartphone but say they do not subscribe to a
| home broadband service."
|
| So the 15% is people who use the internet exclusively via LTE/5G
| without paying for home broadband.
|
| (I'm surprised that number isn't higher as well.)
| xnx wrote:
| Will GitHub ever change the file list preceding the README.md
| content? This has always seemed a poor default, but maybe the way
| I use GitHub is different than their primary user?
| acedTrex wrote:
| I don't know why anyone would want this. I use github to look
| at code, the code should be front and center immediately.
| mfro wrote:
| I think this is a problem solved by github pages. If a
| project's primary distribution method is github, they should
| build a Page and link people to that, instead of the repo.
| xnx wrote:
| Glad to see some discouragement of custom design systems. I
| shudder at the person-hours that have been squandered on that
| fruitless endeavor. Pre-web, essentially zero time was spent on
| "design systems", and we were all better for it.
| cyberax wrote:
| > Which is all to say, that mobile is the new baseline. And we're
| trying to match it using a technology stack originally built for
| displaying documents!
|
| This is such a bullshit take. I don't think I ever used my phone
| to do anything on Github. Nor do I want to.
| throwaway-1231 wrote:
| Ironically, the blog doesn't work well on mobile. The width is
| fixed, the end of the sentences are out of view. I have to
| vertically scroll right/left to read
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