Aside from the accessibility concerns -- which is honestly inexcusable -- the non-centered repo layout is so strange to me:
All that info that's now in the sidebar is temporary. All of it. I never need to look at a project language more than once.
However, it takes up 100% of the height of the page, so when I'm halfway through a README, the README gets offset by some magical space. The ghost of the 1 paragraph of "language/tags/etc." takes up that space. The README is not centered.
From a design perspective, this layout implies an equal level of hierarchy between the right sidebar and the main content. It implies that they should be referenced side-by-side. But that is just not the case. I want to meet the person who thinks that the document literally entitled "README" (or oh, I don't know, all of the files) is somehow as-or-less important than the tags on a repository -- which are usually just the title copy pasted anyways.
I develop open-source things and I absolutely love to use GitHub. In particular, I've spent a LOT of time reading README's and also writing them. I really think their centered layout should come back.
As a suggestion: Maybe they could shift just the _files list_ over for that sidebar, and have any block content not centered?
Or maybe if there somehow existed a compact way to organize that information. Maybe a horizontal layout because there is only a little bit of text. Something like that.
All that info that's now in the sidebar is temporary. All of it. I never need to look at a project language more than once.
However, it takes up 100% of the height of the page, so when I'm halfway through a README, the README gets offset by some magical space. The ghost of the 1 paragraph of "language/tags/etc." takes up that space. The README is not centered.
From a design perspective, this layout implies an equal level of hierarchy between the right sidebar and the main content. It implies that they should be referenced side-by-side. But that is just not the case. I want to meet the person who thinks that the document literally entitled "README" (or oh, I don't know, all of the files) is somehow as-or-less important than the tags on a repository -- which are usually just the title copy pasted anyways.
I develop open-source things and I absolutely love to use GitHub. In particular, I've spent a LOT of time reading README's and also writing them. I really think their centered layout should come back.
As a suggestion: Maybe they could shift just the _files list_ over for that sidebar, and have any block content not centered?
Or maybe if there somehow existed a compact way to organize that information. Maybe a horizontal layout because there is only a little bit of text. Something like that.