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@CozyPlanes thanks, sounds cool, I'd check it out but I have an iPhone.
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@dfox install custom android rom in a iphone! Somehow...
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@ChappIO github api sucks as hell, but their support is pretty good
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Finally a rant from @dfox!
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@karma less is more but it's 2017 and being a billion dollar company and having a "mobile web" version that lacks the most basic features of your product is a terrible decision IMO. My anecdotal experience speaking to devs I know (one who happens to manage one of the biggest open source JS projects in existence) find it useless in almost every scenario where you have to do anything remotely meaningful.
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@dfox ohh the times ive had to use show desktop version :p as cozy said fasthub is good and yeah I had a plan to do a github API but one example was enough to realize I was gonna hate myself for consuming that messy API
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@CozyPlanes Really? I work with many apis for a living but very few of them are such a breeze as GitHub.
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@CozyPlanes I will find you and I will teach you what should and shouldn't be done to phones xD
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@ChappIO not 4 me~
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@jpichardo haha
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@billgates dR isn't opensource
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@Skayo your <> syntax breaks the mention
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<@Dacexi>
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@Dacexi
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@jpichardo @Pizza @Naptic haha yeah it's pretty funny, you can tell someone or some team there knows it's an issue so they just "corrected" it by making show desktop version button really visible. Definitely the right thing to do if they aren't willing to make the mobile app more usable. It's kind of crazy though haha, they should just make a full-featured mobile version already.
@Dacexi good find - if you can I'd greatly appreciate if you could make a GitHub issue for that. -
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@dfox hey! is there any special characters allowed in username? Or is it just a-z and 0-9?
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@chrisrhymes I think Bitbucket is missing a true mobile version, but much like GitHub, their desktop version works perfectly fine on mobile.
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The API should also be providing attributed data about usernames and links to tell you exactly where the link appears, so if you want to, you should be able to just rely on that instead of parsing stuff out on your own. Either should work though. -
Update on this rant:
GitHub mobile web version is even more of a fucking joke than I originally thought. It seems validated in this rant based on all the feedback that no one likes it.
Today I noticed that on mobile they don't even bother to show reactions on comments. I opened up a GitHub issue and was looking at a comment, and I was like "hmm, I could've sworn I added a reaction to that comment." Switched to desktop version, and of course, there it is. Their mobile website is a completely useless counter-productive joke. -
@dfox earlier today I did a comment (on a devrant issue actually) using the mobile version. After submitting I noticed I had a typo, tried to edit and guess what? No fucking "edit comment" button! 😡
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That's a good one!
The mobile web version of GitHub is absolute garbage. It's so shitty I don't even get why they bother. It lacks basic features like issue searching and the interface is so dumbed down everything just feels cheap and I always feel like I'm missing out.
All the devs I've talked to say they always just select "show desktop version." I do that too. It works perfectly. It's so fucking annoying. I wish they would just make a real mobile version, that's not missing features, or just default to the desktop app on mobile - works fine and everyone uses it anyway.
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