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Not a huge fan the changes. Having a separated navbar for the site and repository made sense to me, now they are partially merged. The repo name, watch, fork a
by dawidpotocki 4y ago
Not a huge fan the changes.
Having a separated navbar for the site and repository made sense to me, now they are partially merged. The repo name, watch, fork and star buttons are now under the navbar and look very weird and out of place. It's not even saving any space and it moved some of the links that used to be on the top navbar before, like PRs, issues, codespaces, marketplace and explore to a hidden menu behind the GitHub logo. How is this an improvement? Logo makes no sense, it is commonly assumed that the logo and/or website names will take the user to the homepage, not show some random menu. I thought that these links were just removed, until I tried to go to the homepage. All it does is require more clicks for no benefit to the user, but I guess that's like 75% of redesigns these days.
On mobile there used to be a single hamburger menu with the classic 3 line icon, now we have 2 hamburger menus, one is hidden behind your profile picture and the other behind the GitHub logo. I also don't understand what was wrong with the previous dropdown on desktops behind the profile picture, which the "+" button next to it still uses. It now takes more screen space, dimms the page and you have to wait for some slide animation. They also used to have a dropdown triangle next to these buttons, now there is no hint that it isn't going to exit your current page. E.g. the notification button to the right of "+" (used to be reversed, why swap?) looks exactly the same, but that's not a dropdown, it takes you to github.com/notifications.
I see no usability improvements and only regressions. I'm not saying that it isn't possible to improve GitHub's navigation, but this just isn't it.