GitHub's new dashboard is now the default for everyone
GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default
GitHub has made its redesigned dashboard the default view after a feature preview period. The new layout consolidates active agent sessions, issues, and pull requests into one place, with filters allowing up to 12 items per section. A separate Feed tab keeps updates distinct from productivity tasks. Users can also start work directly from the dashboard, such as assigning an issue to Copilot coding agent or opening a pull request in Copilot Chat. Those who prefer the old experience can switch back at any time.
Start work directly from the dashboard, such as assigning an issue to Copilot coding agent or opening a pull request in Copilot Chat.
- radicalriddler
A lot of people seem to be complaining, but the last iteration had Copilot at the top and then a "Feed" of what other people were doing.
This seems to push your issues and pull requests as the main items of the page, and that's significantly better.
- Delgan
It's great to add new features, but couldn't GitHub fix the essential ones first?
Just this week, I encountered the following problems:
- a diff showing "0 files changed" while there are many [1];
- suggested changes in a PR not rendering the original line [2];
- bug trackers not showing more than the 40th page [3].
Might seem nitpicky but it was just over the last week... I have a whole bunch of other bugs on my mind, and unfortunately, it's only gotten worse over the years. To the point where I almost don't care anymore.
[1] https://github.com/PokeAPI/sprites/pull/284#issuecomment-585...
[2] https://github.com/Delgan/loguru/pull/1516#discussion_r41268...
- kccqzy
I’ll just contrast this with the default dashboard experience at my employer’s in-house bug tracker. That dashboard allows the user to customize the view in a grid, such as 1x2 or 2x3 or 3x3. Then within each item of a grid you can define a search query whose results will be displayed there. For each result, you can customize which items to show, e.g. subject, need attention, assignee, priority, etc. The UI feels dated in a late 2000s style, but it permits staggering amount of customization. When different employees open their dashboard it feels like different websites.
- Jeeetendra
splitting the feed from issues and prs makes sense, but i don't need starting a coding agent to be the center of my dashboard. glad the old view is still an option.
- rpozarickij
Chances are slim that someone from GitHub will read this, but the text in this post (and other posts in the Changelog category) would be much more readable if there was more contrast between the text and the background (now it's dark grey text on black background).