Issues: Index, Create and Show Page Updates Public Preview (Opt In roll out) #139935
-
|
GitHub Issues is evolving! 🥳 Feedback wantedThank you for participating in the issues public preview for sub-issues, issue types and advanced search.
This new functionality is built on top of a UI rewrite of issues, which we would love your feedback on! The aim of this rewrite was to clear up technical debt, allowing us to move faster in bringing new functionality to issues. With this in mind our goal has been parity with the existing experience. It should feel very familiar with only a few minor cosmetic tweaks. The experiences that have been included so far in these updates are:
The milestones, labels and /issues dashboard pages have not yet been migrated. Please leave your feedback below on what is working well, any bugs you encounter, and what else you’d like to see! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Replies: 206 comments 468 replies
-
|
Why is the font weight on /issues lower now? It makes the text a lot more difficult to read. Before, font weight 600: After, font weight 500: |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
+1 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@ndren @david-crespo @PatchMixolydic @Siedlerchr @markerikson @sersorrel @arthurscarpin this should now be fixed, thank you for your patience and involvement! ❤️ |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Ok , now i have something to do when I back i wll take a pictures for where can this page lead you!! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Please support for feedback on for avreting my account |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
There's actually the same issue with usernames in individual issue conversation pages. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
On mobile, when I use the browser back button to return from an issue to the issues list, the issues list will intermittently (but annoyingly regularly) fail to load for me. Reloading the page woks around the issue. Otherwise, the new issues list is ok. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@samlh @jcready Thank you for reaching out, I believe we addressed the issue that caused this. Are you still experiencing this? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Sadly, it just happened again for me a moment ago on Firefox desktop, after a rather long streak of not reproducing. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what help I can give tracking it down given how rarely it happens... |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Ah, good(?) news - I was able to repro it a 2nd time by:
Expected: I can see the list of issues EDIT: calling this the blank issues list issue
I did notice a different issue when trying to reproduce, though:
Expected: The url and input box contains "state:closed", and I should see the list of closed issues EDIT: calling this the active instead of closed issue Sadly, this issue also can't be reproduced easily Seeing this on Firefox 132.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows 10 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
And another repro of the blank issues list issue (repro no.3): when in this state, I can go forward to go to the issue again: And press use browser toolbar back button or mouse back button to see the blank closed issues list: ... as many times as I want Opening the dropdown menus work just fine: (From previous repros: refreshing or going back from the issues list to the previous page unsticks things again.) There are no errors in the browser console. From the browser dev tools: EDIT: The trick for reproducing the blank issues list issue seems to be leaving the browser open on the issues list for a while (go off and do something else), and when you come back, click an issue, then use the browser back button. It appears to happen more often than not that I hit the issue when leaving the tab alone for a while and then come back to it. Steps:
Browser info:
Related(?) issue (EDIT: calling this author filter not removed on back button issue) Selecting an author from the authors dropdown successfully loads their issues, but pressing browser back then does not return me to the full list:
Expected: the complete list of closed issues is displayed Unlike the blank issues list issue and the active instead of closed issue:
I'm hoping some part of the info above will be helpful for tracking down the issues - please let me know if there's any other info that might be helpful Thanks for looking into this! EDIT to add: On a positive note, the overall experience is quite nice, even with the occasional hiccups around browser back/forwards - thanks for the hard work! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@samlh thank you for the detailed report 🙏🏼
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I don't like that overall UI has less contrast than before. I'm really used to that contrast and now for me everything is a little bit too light or invisible. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
The search bar matching the background color is the biggest one for me. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@gameboycjp curious about your feedback, do you feel the search bar isn't highlighted enough in the new UI? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@sunnyi101 Yeah. Maybe my eyes are bad, but it looks like the inside of the search box is the same color as the background. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Yeah, this input box definitely needs a different background color: |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Yes. The most confusing thing is that the line just below the search bar is highlighted (open, closed, etc.) which makes the search box less visible. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
The other thing I don't like is the "title bars": Previously most of the space was for avatar and username. Now it become much smaller and more space is captured by this blueish background |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Agreed, also edits are shown in the far right making it difficult to identify them. New edits UI: Old edits UI: While the new UI aligns with the edits identification in the GitHub discussions UI here, I think it is better in both places to make the comment/thread better identifiable that it was edited. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thank you both for the feedback! We are currently working on some fixes for these 👍 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Having the avatar outside of the comment "bubble" made it much easier to find related messages by the same user. Also, since the avatar was outside of the comment bubble, it was on the same relative position to the "add comment" section, which made it look more integrated to the rest of the page. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Agreed, having the avatars be so much smaller makes it much harder to identify them at a glance. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Omg, this is so much a long-awaited feature for me. I maintain an open-source (actually, fair source) project and I have multiple repositories for different services (server & agent software). I am used to creating all tickets on the primary repo (server) and then, if there is work to be done for an agent, I create an issue in the agent's repo with a single line: "Relates to ####". Now I can create sub-issues for another repo in my "epics" and better see the actual progress! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thank you for the feedback! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
UI looks broken on desktop (https://github.com/ComposeGears/Valkyrie/issues): the same layout on mobile looks correct: |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
What's broken on mobile? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks so much for the feedback! 🙌 @egorikftp Would you be able to share the OS and browser from your desktop screenshot? We can see some unintended alignment/spacing |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@peterloveland |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I find out that the reason of this issue is this plugin 🙁 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/github-emoji/ecldoejhjmekemajgjjalfgkhgmfjgcl |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Yes. I got it |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
With the "classic" interface, in the issues index page, when sorting issues by last updated you'd see both the time when the issue was opened and last updated. With the new interface you see only the time when the issue was last updated. I'd prefer to retain the information of when the issue was first reported. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
@matthchr we added back the timestamp with |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
As of yesterday this appears to have flipped. Now when you sort by last updated you only get the opened date/time, and not the date/time when it was last updated. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@ianjoneill you're right! That's a regression from recent work we did probably. We'll get a fix out asap! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@ianjoneill Thanks again for the heads-up, this is now fixed 🙏🏼 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I miss the "progress circle" on the issue list, and I want to encourage checkboxes to continue to contribute to said circle |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks for the feedback - we are looking into how we manage this with both sub-issues and checkboxes at the moment and will make sure to take this into account |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
The "Sub-issues" appear by default in the For example, the default filter for Issues is |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Would be great if sub-issues had a checkbox for whether to show them in the main list or not. I like the idea of subdividing larger issues but I feel like I'm forced into repeating the title of the parent issue because it only makes sense in that context, at which point it's just polluting the main issues list. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
'Saved views' (with a customisable default) is somewhere we would like to go in the future which could help here? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
That would be definitely be nice! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
On /issues, due to the 'give feedback' notification, there currently is a bit of margin between the menu bar and the issue list, which really throws me off. It feels like there should be something there |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@xlenstra Thank you for the feedback. We will look into this! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Having to wait for all issues to load before you can switch between open and closed tabs is so annoying, I get that this is probably a very minor nitpick but it'd be nice if the delay wasn't there at all. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks for the feedback @nakoyasha - how are you finding the loading in general? The performance of the /issues page is still something we are working on |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Aside from that, I think it's okay (haven't tested it with a ton of issues yet so can't really say) |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
On /issues, I dislike that currently both the comments and assigned person always show up, even if there are no comments and no one is assigned. It feels like it just clutters the screen, and especially for comments it makes it more difficult to find the issues/PRs that actually have comments on them |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
We are working on a change for this |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Came here to also comment on the 0 comment counters. To add some thoughts that might help with why this feels like a bad change: it is very difficult to scan the list of issues and determine which ones have active discussions or not. On the old version, when there was no comments there was no icon so it was immediately obvious that there were no comments (if you knew that there was no icon). Now they are all visually similar. An alternative might be to recolour the icons/text when there are no comments to a more washed out colour (that is to say closer to the background colour). This way they are visually distinct even though they are both now shown. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I see this has been fixed, thanks :D |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Yes, we just fixed this. Thanks for raising this issue! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
It would be nice if pin, transfer, lock and delete were in this menu: |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thank you for the feedback! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Left clicking on a pull request in the issues list opens it in a new tab. It should only do this when middle clicking, not when left clicking. This does not happen when left clicking on an issue, only on a pull request. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Good spot - we will get that fixed |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Fixed! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
The |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks for sharing @DavidVentura - we will take a look |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Hi @DavidVentura, thanks for sharing this feedback! Couple of follow-up questions:
This will help us inform how to improve the search functionality! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Initially the dropdown contained ~10 items (out of 21), and as I started picking them, each item got removed from the list, but a new item did not take its place; so the dropdown shrunk item by item until it was empty. Typing |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I’m having similar issues. I’m looking at an issue (an “epic”), trying to add a sub-issue using “Add existing issue”. The issue I want to add is titled “Record a project:view:embedded event from analytics script”. The issue search seems to fail if my query has a partial word or if it has a colon. “project:view:embedded” was the first thing I searched for and it led me to believe there were no issues with that in the title.
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Hello, this new UI page looks inconsistent with everything else. [View Example]
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@kanashimia I've noted your feedback as part of a broader discussion around the sidebar. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I'm dearly missing a way to filter for issues I'm involved with in any way (issues I've left a comment on, am subscribed to, have started, etc.). The feature is available on the GitHub iOS app. If I apply the filters |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I'm using the On iOS, the filter is available on a drop-down list of filters similar to the list you're displaying on the left-hand side panel: |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I had a chat with my colleagues and you should be able to get the same list of issues by typing Also, I will log your feature suggestion of making Involved as one of the pre-defined Filters. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@labudis Thank you. Just to be clear, there's a discrepancy between the iOS app and the website. The website uses |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
As far as I know |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Sure thing, just wanted to confirm. Thanks for clarifying. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks for your feedback @sylv256. We have decided to remove this for now as per my post: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/139935#discussioncomment-11593633 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Hi 👋, I'm the new Senior Product Manager at GitHub working on Issues. It's my second week here so please bear with me. Last week, we introduced a new left sidebar with quick issue filters in the Public Preview of the New issues experience. While some of you found it helpful, we also received feedback that it didn't work well for everyone. Based on your input, we've decided to remove the sidebar for now as we work on designing a better solution. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and stay tuned for future updates! Please keep the feedback coming as it's instrumental in making the New issues experience better for you all 🙌🏻 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as spam.
This comment was marked as spam.
-
|
@labudis if your team would like some concrete examples of what kind of custom issue views that users might find useful (based on multiple conditions like issue status, labels, assignee, etc.), feel free to ping me. I'd be happy to share my experiences triaging https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues (other repos of course likely will want to have their own custom views). |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
that would be great @jieyouxu! Are you comfortable sharing your favourite filter sets here? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
I'll start a separate thread (idk what these ones are called?) for that purpose specifically. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
@labudis as you said you'd like to know about my favorite filter sets, I'll share it here in a separate thread. Note that this is specifically for issue triaging on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues (abbreviated "r-l/r") and is not necessarily applicable for other repos. Some context for r-l/r (overly simplified):
Some example filter sets:
Note that r-l/r has an quite extensive system of labels as well as multiple contributors who triage issues regularly, which significantly improves the signal-to-noise ratio of custom views IMO. Other repos that do not have extensive label sets and contributors who regularly triage issues probably are unlikely to find custom views as useful. Our PRs have some labels which are somewhat different. I did not mention them here as that seems like a distinct product area. Hope that helps! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thank you so much for sharing your detailed use cases! We are currently working on an experience which will allow users to save custom filters from searches and name them. Then these can be used to quickly filter issues within the view. I think you will find this feature very useful. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Looking forward to custom filters! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as spam.
This comment was marked as spam.
-
|
We would like to try this feature so please let us know how we can use this? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Yes I am the owner of all orgs for which I have applied. And getting the same error for all orgs. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I flagged the issue to the team and we're currently investigating why you are not able to opt-in. Sorry for the trouble! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Ok great, awaiting your reply. thanks |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@labudis Any update on this? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Sorry for the delay, @beingminimal, I was not yet able to find a resolution for this issue but I've just escalated it again. I appreciate your patience. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as spam.
This comment was marked as spam.
-
|
Is there any way to change the order of sub-issues? I suppose right now it is sorting them by creation date like the default sorting mechanism in the issues list. Would it be an idea to add some manual sorting mechanism to be able to drag and drop sub-issues and change their display order? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@a11delavar thanks for sharing this idea! I've passed on your comments to the appropriate team for their consideration. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@a11delavar after checking with the team I learned that it is already possible to sort sub-issues via drag and drop!
Please let me know if you are having any issues getting this to work. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@labudis Thanks for the reply! I checked and I don't see the drag-and-drop handles: GH.mp4Am I missing something, is there anything that prevents the list to be sortable? I see in the code clues like the list container having |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thanks for sending the video, I have logged this as a potential bug for our team to investigate. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@labudis I now see the sorting handle is there and working, thanks again! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment has been minimized.
This comment has been minimized.
-
|
We're still using the legacy issue template workflow because we want only a single template with some pre-defined content in the description. We don't want users to have to select a template. We noticed that the issue template no longer works after opting into the public beta. Now, I'm mainly curious to understand if this is intentional because the workflow is considered legacy or if you plan on bringing back support for legacy templates, and we can keep using it. Thank you |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I too, would like to be able to have users skip that intermediate step when creating issues. This will affect I would like to be able to, for example, configure a single template and have that template always be used by default. Personally I'm fine if this works only with non-form templates ( |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
is:issue state:open "without describe" |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thank you @dscotese, I was able to replicate your issue and have raised it for our team to look at. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
@dscotese could you please verify if this is still happening? Should be fixed now. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I tested it when you first said it was fixed and sorry I didn't report that I found it worked pretty well. A search with quotes around anything returns fewer results than without the quotes. I also like that "without describe" will return results that actually have "without describing" in them. The repo I was searching was jest/jest which shows that the problem still exists, but it has been pretty well mitigated. It finds occurrences of the quoted term in which whitespace within the search term might have some other text in it, but not so much that the rare search term ("without describe", for example) still returns too many results to be useful. It would be nice if there were an "exact phrase" option. I thought quotation marks were used for that, but they aren't always strict enough. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
@MasterInQuestion this issue has been fixed! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
@MasterInQuestion thanks for flagging, we should have a fix for that very soon! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Hi @MasterInQuestion , the fix has been rolled out, please let us know if you still encounter any issues. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
This comment was marked as off-topic.
-
|
Is it possible to request a Public Preview of new Issues experienced only for a single repository? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Thank you all for taking the time to share your feedback in this thread. 🙇♀️ We’re excited to announce that we have expanded the roll out and made meaningful updates that we believe will enhance your experience. This is a direct reflection of the conversations we’ve had here, and we’re grateful for your role in this process. As part of this rollout, we’ve created a new feedback discussion to gather your thoughts on the latest updates and ensure we continue to improve. If you’ve already shared your experiences here, we’ve taken your feedback on board. However, if you feel there are points worth revisiting or emphasizing, we encourage you to highlight them again in the new discussions to keep the conversation fresh and relevant. We look forward to hearing more of our users exploring the evolution of GitHub issues and sharing their thoughts in the new threads! See you there. 👋 |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Thank you all for taking the time to share your feedback in this thread. 🙇♀️ We’re excited to announce that we have expanded the roll out and made meaningful updates that we believe will enhance your experience. This is a direct reflection of the conversations we’ve had here, and we’re grateful for your role in this process.
As part of this rollout, we’ve created a new feedback discussion to gather your thoughts on the latest updates and ensure we continue to improve. If you’ve already shared your experiences here, we’ve taken your feedback on board. However, if you feel there are points worth revisiting or emphasizing, we encourage you to highlight them again in the new discussions to k…