I feel for text wrapping, letting it simply flow off the device screen works well in this UX scenario because all of these devices should be expected to be multi-touch enabled. It is very intuitive for a mobile device user to swipe left/right in order to scroll content that is obviously clipped by the screen dimensions. Swiping left/right and pinching to zoom are the very first things I tried when reviewing a PR. I feel if you could support some approach where the text item is displayed at full scale always (no line break/wrapping), and the user can basically treat the view like they would an image (pinch-to-zoom/pan).
Additionally, perhaps the code review process on mobile could be somewhat different from the desktop experience. Instead of trying to display the full diff all at once for a file, perhaps you aggregate the diff regions, and then display those one-at-a-time. Sort of like a tinder for code reviews. Swipe left on a diff region for deeper review, swipe right for approval. Lots of cool stuff you can do if you fully-leverage the mobile device environment and related user knowledge.
BTW, I love the direction all of this is headed in. Keep up the great work.
I too use the feed or homepage. Mostly for discovery of repos from people I follow and getting notifications about who starred which of my repositories. I do miss that in the app. Otherwise I love it so far.
Yes I have to say, this is fast becoming one of my favourite ways to discover new repos. It attracts developers who might not be the most vocal on traditional forms of social media but otherwise have something worth visiting.
As the sibling comment says, horizontal scrolling would be an improvement over the status quo. Pinch to zoom would be another nice win.
> Can you tell me more about what you use this feed for? You're talking about the one on the github.com home page?
Yes, that's the one I'm talking about. I use it to see who's starring repos I'm involved in, who's following me, and what the developers I follow are starring (the feed also has stuff about what people are pushing to repos I watch, but that is not interesting to me because I usually keep track of it by following PRs or issues). Just keeping track of what's going on in the world.
Finally, I found the feedback handling from the betas somewhat discouraging. At least when I tried it, it just emailed off and there was no follow-up at all. If that process was a bit more conducive, I might have given you this feedback sooner.
> The main activity feed from / is nowhere to be seen, even though this is something I use daily on my laptops
Can you tell me more about what you use this feed for? You're talking about the one on the github.com home page?
Again thanks for the feedback, we have a lot of work to do still! Forwarding this comment to the team.