sindresorhus/refined-github

Why you hide count field for "Watch" and "Fork" buttons? #1843

kvolkovich-sc posted onGitHub

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I personally prefer original variant.

If you don't want to fix it, maybe you have a CSS snippet to got it back?


Hello, I don't believe the question in this issue's title has been actually answered :

Why you hide count field for "Watch" and "Fork" buttons?

Here's the original issue: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/1601

With the article that triggered it: https://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/

And here's the full explanation from the original PR:

Popularity is already determined by stars.

[The number of] forks just tell you how many people potentially contributed in the past and others who just clicked it to “save a copy”.

[The number of] watchers also feels pretty useless compared to the actual contributions I see. Refined GitHub has 150+ watchers but only a handful of people actually follow the project and comment/contribute regularly. Even dead projects have plenty of watchers 🤷‍♂️

In the end, the feature was made disableable, so if you disagree you can disable it. ☮️

posted by fregante over 4 years ago

Update: the forks count was restored in v21.4.23 (on wide viewports) since it points to a potentially-useful forks list page.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/pull/4249

posted by fregante almost 4 years ago

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