Unfollow accidents on GitHub/notifications is too darn easy

4 points by dezzadk 1 year ago | 1 comment

I was looking at https://github.com/notifications when I accidentally pressed the mouse over the [unsubscribe] bell icon twice.

Did github show a confirmation dialog? Nope. It unsubscribed me from 2 random issues I'll never find again.

Is there any way to recall which issues it was? Not a chance.. Not unless you had the browser console open on the Network tab before you did your mistake.

I'm so fed up with Github's aging edgy cringekid javascript webdesign choices and their overridden CTRL+F search. Their site literally screams peak JavaScript/UX terrorism era of 2014-ish.

Its unproductive, you can never find the right button to navigate in commit/PR views compared to the absolutely intuitive alternatives. The 30% viewport width on gist/files on HiDPI 4K screens with a height viewport that looks like an embarrased accidentally shrunken wooly sweater on short files with low line-count is absolutely terrible.

Am I totally wrong about this being tasteless design? It it just me, who feels like Github feels like a time-capsule from the worst era of webdesign?

yencabulator 1 year ago |

Your argument would be more persuasive if the rant at the end was left off.

"Accidental dismiss" bad UI syndrome plagues me also on my phone, I had a notification from some app and I smushed the screen with my thumb and swiped it off, I have no idea what it was. Just because I (accidentally) acknowledge something doesn't mean the computer should forget that it ever existed!

And about an hour ago, my laptop dinged twice and I have no idea what browser tab did that.

I wish all computer things came with operation logs and where feasible undo buttons. All the way to having perfect audit logs for running ops on cloud services.