Think there are two problems here: 1. For people visiting their own repositories, the viewing the code itself has little to no value. They more than likely alr

Think there are two problems here: 1. For people visiting their own repositories, the viewing the code itself has little to no value. They more than likely already have it open in their editor / IDE in another window. These folks probably want the issues, PRs and other accompanying features. Collaboration is now the key - not the code itself. 2. For other people (non-committers) looking at a repo, this is different. When I visit other codebases I do actually look at the code to check certain things - what style it is, what frameworks have been used, how complicated the code is, if tests are present etc. Then I check to see what kind of (any how many) issues have been raised. It might actually make sense to show a different view depending on whether you have commit permissions to the repo or not.