GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default
GitHub's redesigned dashboard, which prioritizes personal issues and pull requests over the social activity feed and integrates Copilot agent shortcuts, is now the default view.
summary is enough The announcement is short, but the comment thread captures developer frustration with GitHub's prioritization of AI features over core bug fixes.
summary
GitHub has made its redesigned dashboard the default view, shifting focus from a social activity feed to personal active issues, pull requests, and Copilot agent sessions. While some developers welcome the productivity focus, commenters heavily criticize the forced inclusion of AI features, excessive padding, and lack of options to remove unused agent sections. Many point out that core GitHub features and long-standing bugs remain broken while the company chases AI UI updates.
key points
- The new dashboard replaces the social activity feed with a productivity-focused view highlighting personal issues, pull requests, and active Copilot sessions.
- Commenters express frustration over forced AI integration, noting there is no simple way to remove the agent sections from the dashboard.
- Developers criticize GitHub for prioritizing interface refreshes and AI features over fixing long-standing platform bugs and improving information density.
who should read it
Software developers and open-source maintainers who use GitHub daily.
discussion skeptical
consensus
Commenters generally agree that prioritizing personal work over the old social feed is an improvement, but strongly dislike the forced promotion of Copilot agents and AI features on their homepages.
pushback
A vocal minority preferred the old social feed for discovering what other open-source developers and followers were working on.
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.
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It highlights a widespread developer grievance by listing specific, recent core bugs that remain unaddressed while UI changes roll out.
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