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I've started using the address bar to get to most things. I usually only need to get to /issues, /commits, /tree/master/filename

maaku 15y ago
Github devs: this is a sign that pretty though it may be, something is wrong.
- cpach 15y ago
  I agree that this should spur the Github developers to re-consider their current design, but I see nothing wrong with the general concept of using URL:s for navigating, just as I prefer the Unix shell over GUI:s for many tasks. Jakob Nielsen wrote about that over ten years ago: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html - I think the gist of his article still holds true.
yuvadam 15y ago
And I thought I was the only one. It's awesome that the URL scheme is 'right' and I can easily use it to get to where I need. But that just means the UI/UX is severely lacking.
spacemanaki 15y ago
You can replace /tree/master/filename by just pressing "t" on a project's page. Learned that a week or two ago and it changed my life.
- egor83 15y ago
  press '?' to get a list of available keyboard shorcuts
antirez 15y ago
I do the same. Probably browsers should have some support for this stuff. What I mean is that if I always visit: foobar.com/verb/<something> and urls where it's clear that there is a fixed part and a variable one, maybe the browser could help you writing this stuff easily, so that you start typing "github commit" and something to just fill with the missing pieces appear.
- eieio 15y ago
  I do this using firefox bookmarks/keywords using %s. For example, I use the bookmark http://www.reddit.com/r/%s http://www.reddit.com/r/%s with the keyword rdr so that I can just type "rdr programming" into the location bar to go to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming. It has made my browsing a whole lot faster.
apinstein 15y ago
We do that a bit as well. Now that I think about it maybe they just need an "awesome bar" for github; put in a sha, branch name, issue, tag, pull request, etc and it can auto-complete and take you there. Also the network view could be really useful for managing projects if it were much faster and slightly better... In general I just think that there are way too many similarly sized/colored buttons spread all over the place, so I never know where to look for what I need, and I can't ever quite tell where I am without much work. I think the mental model of how to view and navigate the repo/network is not transparent or consistent. If they could nail that it would really help a ton.

maaku 15y ago

Github devs: this is a sign that pretty though it may be, something is wrong.

cpach 15y ago
I agree that this should spur the Github developers to re-consider their current design, but I see nothing wrong with the general concept of using URL:s for navigating, just as I prefer the Unix shell over GUI:s for many tasks. Jakob Nielsen wrote about that over ten years ago: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html - I think the gist of his article still holds true.

yuvadam 15y ago

And I thought I was the only one. It's awesome that the URL scheme is 'right' and I can easily use it to get to where I need. But that just means the UI/UX is severely lacking.

spacemanaki 15y ago

You can replace /tree/master/filename by just pressing "t" on a project's page. Learned that a week or two ago and it changed my life.

egor83 15y ago
press '?' to get a list of available keyboard shorcuts

antirez 15y ago

I do the same. Probably browsers should have some support for this stuff. What I mean is that if I always visit: foobar.com/verb/<something> and urls where it's clear that there is a fixed part and a variable one, maybe the browser could help you writing this stuff easily, so that you start typing "github commit" and something to just fill with the missing pieces appear.

eieio 15y ago
I do this using firefox bookmarks/keywords using %s. For example, I use the bookmark http://www.reddit.com/r/%s http://www.reddit.com/r/%s with the keyword rdr so that I can just type "rdr programming" into the location bar to go to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming. It has made my browsing a whole lot faster.

apinstein 15y ago

We do that a bit as well. Now that I think about it maybe they just need an "awesome bar" for github; put in a sha, branch name, issue, tag, pull request, etc and it can auto-complete and take you there. Also the network view could be really useful for managing projects if it were much faster and slightly better... In general I just think that there are way too many similarly sized/colored buttons spread all over the place, so I never know where to look for what I need, and I can't ever quite tell where I am without much work. I think the mental model of how to view and navigate the repo/network is not transparent or consistent. If they could nail that it would really help a ton.