New dashboard is now the default experience

[moraesc]

Last year, we introduced a new, productivity-focused dashboard as a feature preview. Since then, many of you have tried it and shared feedback about both the new and previous dashboard experiences.

Based on feedback, we’re making the new new dashboard the default experience for everyone. The new dashboard is designed to provide a focused view of your current work and help you decide what to do next. With it, you can:

• View your active agent sessions, issues, and pull requests in one place.
• Filter each section and display up to 12 items per list.
• Catch up on repository and organization activity in the separate Feed tab.
• Start work directly from the dashboard, such as assigning an issue to Copilot coding agent or opening a pull request in Copilot Chat.

We know there is more work to do. Over the last few weeks, we’ve received a significant amount of thoughtful feedback about the new experience. We’re currently exploring several directions for follow-up improvements based on the themes we’ve heard most consistently. We’ll share more about those improvements in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, if you prefer the previous dashboard, you can switch back at any time using the dropdown next to Preview.

Please continue sharing your feedback below - particularly what helps you stay productive, what gets in your way, and what you would most like us to improve. Your feedback is helping shape what comes next for the dashboard.

[VariableVince]

On the mobile homepage/dashboard, the Feed isn't offered as an option. So "Catch up on repository and organization activity in the separate Feed tab." is only a possibility on desktop, bar typing /feed in the mobile browser address bar manually.

(Edit: seems that in the meantime, a Feed option was added in the side menu on mobile. Quite sure it wasn't there before)

[moraesc]

Glad you're able to see the Feed in mobile, not sure why it wasn't showing before. Let me know if you have any other questions!

[elchininet]

This is what "the new dashboard" displays for me:

So, for me it is just pull requests and issues. No stars in my repos, no forks of my repos, no new followers following me. The previous dashboard was a regression for me because I needed to disable everything and just check stars, follows and repositories with the drawback of seeing stars, follows and repositories from every user that I followed once in the past or a repo that I starred once in the past, so the only way to remove something or personalise something is unfollow a user or remove a star from a repo.

Now the new dashboard removes all the information that I find useful, and it just shows pull requests and issues (something that I can see if I want going to those sections).

For me is as easy as providing the user with options to select what is the information they want to see and how they want to filter it. But a real filter, not just a filter to show everything or nothing (like choosing between "showing stars given to your repos and to every repo that you have starred before" or "not showing stars at all"). If you provide options and filters for everything, every user can chose what they want to display in their dashboards, but instead doing that, every six months someone comes with a new dashboard with a total different content and start to experiment with it with the hypothesis that it is what users want.

[khalidbelk]

In case someone doesn't want to see the Dashboard as their default page, here's my current workaround (until Github hopefully fixes this):

From my original comment:

Currently, what I'm using as a workaround is this "Redirect" Chrome extension.

You have to:

• Add the extension from the Chrome Web Store (the link I shared above).
• Set a redirection from "https://github.com/" to "https://github.com/feed".
• Check the "Exact URL match" option. (This is important, since you don't want other URLs on the same domain to redirect you to > the feed page, just the one with that specific path.)

The only downside is that you won't be able to see the new "Home" page, even when clicking on the button (that's the goal of the redirection). But if you still need to see that data, you could:

• Check it out at "https://github.com/issues" or "https://github.com/pulls", since it's the same data anyway.
• Directly access https://github.com/dashboard, if you don't set up a redirect for that URL as well.

[moraesc]

Now the new dashboard removes all the information that I find useful, and it just shows pull requests and issues (something that I can see if I want going to those sections).

Hey, what you were seeing in the previous version of the dashboard has been moved to the "Feed" tab on the left side of the page.

For me is as easy as providing the user with options to select what is the information they want to see and how they want to filter it.

Noted! We're gathering feedback and exploring ways we can continue to improve the dashboard so thank you for sharing.

[joshka]

Instead or alongside this, how about making notifications good? There's some concrete simple improvements that would help triaging in general.

1. Provide ways to filter notifications of a specific state (merged, shipped release, closed) so these can be handled in bulk easily
2. Filter by type (issue / pr / release)
3. Provide access to the done state as a filter and via the api, so we can use non github website tooling to manage the notifications
4. Filter by author (e.g. let me filter dependabot notifications so I can handle them in one pass)
5. Show and allow filters on PR check status so I can look at PRs that are ready for a quick next step rather than ones that require digging into failures etc.
6. Make this all available properly via the API so I can let my clanker interact with this stuff based on rules that it has to help me triage stuff. Right now there are enough missing fields from the notification APIs that it makes it impossible to work around the shortcomings of the notifications with tooling (without screen scraping /notifications).

All of these things would be better for interacting with work to be done.

A general rule on this is if the information would make it easier to understand what work is to be done, to choose it, to act on it in bulk or in batches of similar actions, then that info belongs in the UI and the API.

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[JokerQyou]

I don't understand, I go to GitHub home page to see my feed - what others are starring, what my watched repos happened. Now they are all gone. What's the point of starring any project at all if all I have is an empty dashboard?