The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.
The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better.
I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and down randomly.
Yeah…and I don’t burn my time watching videos unless it’s teaching me to fix an appliance, or do small home repairs…videos are for tricky in person stuff, screenshots and text are for apps.
On mobile (Firefox android) you can't see the video overview - so I have absolutely no information to go on as to what this is, other than it wants a lot of permissions, and to sign in with my GitHub account.
Looks interesting but also, they are saving everything to a database. It's not simply an alternative frontend for Github akin Nitter or NewPipe (for Twitter and TY respectively).
I'm not really interested in using it, or giving someone access to my GitHub account but I do hope that something like that will inspire someone at GitHub.
This looks awesome! I remember the Mitchell tweet, it was like a week ago? I'm super impressed how much functionality you managed to push out so fast. Crazy times.
And I very much agree with Mitchell that the repository page needs improvement. If it's a public repository I'm exploring, I scroll always down through the files to see the README. If it's a repository I'm maintaining I'm either clicking on commits, PRs or issues. All this information should be right there on the first page! Most of the realestate is occupied by the file view, something I never cared about.
I have also been working on improving the experience for myself with https://lubeno.dev, and have been thinking for the last year how GitHub can be improved. I started specifically with Pull Requests, borrowing some ideas from other platforms, like stacked PRs. One feature that I'm very proud of is the possibility to see an interdiff when someone changes the code I commented on. You can instantly tell if the issue was addressed instead of getting an <outdated> tag on the comment and hunting down the latest changes. Would really love to see more innovation when it comes to forges. It looks like GitHub set the standard 20 years ago and everything else is a 1:1 copy of it.
Having a vibe coded app (openclaw) being in the header promo image was enough to nope me out of even thinking about it. This is vibe coded slop. Why on earth would I give that access to my github account.
I will never use dark mode if I can avoid it. The idea that it's somehow better is a bit shady [0][1] (save for mobile devices where arguably it may help save some energy), but I absolutely understand that it can be a personal preference.
The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better.
I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and down randomly.
Yes, and including admin access to all your orgs :)
You can also use a PAT but that's already too much friction for me for something like this.
https://github.com/better-auth/better-hub
Looks interesting but also, they are saving everything to a database. It's not simply an alternative frontend for Github akin Nitter or NewPipe (for Twitter and TY respectively).
And i dont know why you wanted me to give you all my permissions?
And I very much agree with Mitchell that the repository page needs improvement. If it's a public repository I'm exploring, I scroll always down through the files to see the README. If it's a repository I'm maintaining I'm either clicking on commits, PRs or issues. All this information should be right there on the first page! Most of the realestate is occupied by the file view, something I never cared about.
I have also been working on improving the experience for myself with https://lubeno.dev, and have been thinking for the last year how GitHub can be improved. I started specifically with Pull Requests, borrowing some ideas from other platforms, like stacked PRs. One feature that I'm very proud of is the possibility to see an interdiff when someone changes the code I commented on. You can instantly tell if the issue was addressed instead of getting an <outdated> tag on the comment and hunting down the latest changes. Would really love to see more innovation when it comes to forges. It looks like GitHub set the standard 20 years ago and everything else is a 1:1 copy of it.
Would be cool if I could have the same interface as forgejo/codeberg and just pretend its not GH
Personally I don’t see the appeal of tacking on to a dependency that I’d prefer to get rid of.
Multiple discussions already exist on HN on this topic, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664079
[0] https://simplyexplained.com/videos/why-dark-mode-makes-you-s...
[1] https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/the-dark-mode-lobby...
It does tend to lose it on refresh, which is bad.