It would be nice to have the option, I think, possibly as a URL parameter. This opinion is somewhat self-serving, as I use the GitHub repo front page as the lin

It would be nice to have the option, I think, possibly as a URL parameter. This opinion is somewhat self-serving, as I use the GitHub repo front page as the link for all my FOSS projects, because it's super easy to have the documentation track the revision of the code you're looking at. But it does also reflect where I typically look first when looking at other people's projects too. (What would suit me, I think, is a view that was very much like the current one, but with the files list collapsed (but expandable). So there'd still be all the the tab-like row across the top, and the About column with releases link, and the main area gewgaws like branch dropdown and some indication of the most recent commit. But just with the README front and centre by default.)