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GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
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Unpopular opinion, but most of that is duplicated information that makes sense to be duplicated because I'm not a machine that can scan the whole page and instantly get what I need.
Top right are action buttons, fork and stars on the center right let you see who else starred and forked the repo.
License information just makes sense to be in a repo summary, and it just happens that most license files are at the root and visible in the file tree.
I don't see the top level stuff, you probably see that because you're not authenticated, so github tries to "sell" itself for you.
I agree "releases" should be at the top though (it used to, and I use GitHub refined to bring it back), but having the latest one at a glance is nice and saved me a click many times.
I mean, yeah, it can make sense to duplicate information. That screenshot isn't supposed to say that all of these should be deduplicated.
But you really gotta be cautious with duplication, because it makes everything else harder to find. And I would absolutely argue that GitHub has crossed the line where they duplicate too much, across the board. It feels like design-by-committee.
This is entirely anecdotal, but what really dumbfounded me while annotating that screenshot, is that I never actually read the links in that "About" section.
I've seen this page probably a thousand times already, but I had no idea that there's an "Activity" link there, which actually seems like it could be useful. Nor a link to the README, to the CONTRIBUTING.md or for "Custom Properties" (whatever that is).
I had no idea how to report a repo until now, even though the link is apparently always on screen.
There's just so much info there, and it's presented like read-only info, not like navigation links, so I always just skipped over the lines that don't have numbers in them. I also genuinely never tried clicking any of these lines before...