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I feel "Github is still an amazing piece of software" and "GitHub has annoying bugs it really shouldn't have" are not really conflicting opinions; they can both
by arp242 2y ago
I feel "Github is still an amazing piece of software" and "GitHub has annoying bugs it really shouldn't have" are not really conflicting opinions; they can both be true at the same time.
I use GitHub because it's still the best option, by quite some margin.[1] But I also think it has stupid bugs (that sometimes take ages to fix), some misdesigns, and at times complete misfeatures.
For example if you have a light colour scheme the GitHub actions log is shown as fairly low-contrast dark. This is quite unreadable for me; there's a reason I use the light theme. So I need to open the 'raw log' and check it from there. Is this doable? Yes. Do I absolutely hate having to use GitHub Actions because it's just such an annoying workflow? Also yes.
GitHub discussions is borderline useless. Try commenting on a larger thread; you'll struggle finding your own comment and seeing if anyone replied. Making a conversation UI that's more confusing and worse than Twitter is quite the achievement, but GitHub pulled it off.
Some of this is just mystifying; these are not new features, and pretty low-hanging fruit. Just like how the back button behaviour was just broken on issues for like half year or longer until they finally fixed it.
[1]: I haven't evaluated Gogs/gitea/Forgejo in a while though. Also the entire double fork thing is somewhat unfortunate.