New Enhanced Repo Insights Views

[j0siepy]

We've updated two of the repo insights views - contributors and code frequency - enables improved focus navigation to support point-by-point navigation, the ability to hide a series by interacting with the chart legend, as well as the ability to view and download the data as a CSV or PNG.

Contributors

• Click and drag date range selection has been replaced by a date range picker. The previous experience required mouse input and was not discoverable, while the new experience is always visible and navigable by keyboard.
• The current date range is more explicitly listed under the heading
• The contributor cards are now more responsive on small screens. The previous experience was locked to a 2 column view, where the new experience will wrap to a single column layout.
  Note: Contributor data is still a weekly rollup of commits.

Code frequency

• The 2 different axes are now differentiated by line style, as well as color.
• Data points are navigable and show more detail in a tooltip, previously you could only reference against the axes visually.

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[Alex-302]

Designers ruined a thing that was worked fine. I mean the charts themselves.

Now I can't select a period and compare the activity of contributors for a specific time period, especially - short, only pre-defined.
The old is not perfect, but the only minor problem when using it is that sometimes it's hard to choose the exact time interval.

Old

New

The previous experience required mouse input and was not discoverable

It was obvious for the audience of this site. The cursor changes when you move it on the graph.

The only notice is that it should have displayed a vertical line on mouseover, like in many apps with graphs

Details

Please allow the exact period to be chosen. I think it is not hard:)
And revert graph style.

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Another thing to remind - few years ago they removed the Punch Card, which could be used to track your overall activity by days of the week (not Contribution Graph in profile).

[KK68HK]

Förvirrande men inget i mot vad det har varit över åren.Jag har inte förstått något.Jag flytta från tanten för det va jobbigt ingen förstod vad jag höll på med inte jag heller.jag va döende i början av 2021 låg i respirator i 18 dygn efter det så har jag försökt förstå mig på vad det är jag håller på med jag kunde inte fråga någon för då trodde dom att jag hade psykos.Jag känner ingen en idag som ens pratar om crypto.Idag har jag ju börja förstå lite mer då blir det lite lättare.Jag har ju iallafall tid för jag blev sjukpansionär förra året.Jag tackar er alla som har bidragit ❤️

[CAM-Gerlach]

Gotta add my voice here—as one of the core developers of the Python programming language, being able to select a precise commit range is invaluable for, e.g., determining key stats on the contribution level of a triager to evaluate whether they should be accepted as a core developer, or for in-depth research on Python history. And as a maintainer of the open source Spyder scientific environment, I often use that feature as well to compile statistics both for use in developer and in outreach, as well as being a critical metric for grant applications and reports allowing us to receive continued funding. As such, I've disabled the new view as this is a critical loss for both of these roles.

As a comment, while it makes sense to add a UI to accommodate the small fraction of users who prefer or require-keyboard-only navigation, I simply don't understand what the logic was to outright remove the essentially orthogonal and much more powerful existing feature, given the former is far more limited and less convenient for mouse users, and were entirely separate UI elements that could have easily coexisted and completed one another.

Furthermore, as others have mentioned, the new line-based graph is much noisier and harder to read and follow than the old smoothed area-based version—it doesn't look much different from noise to me now when clear trends were obvious before. And besides the constrat issues above, the poor ability to discern the new visual style even for someone of average or above-average visual acuity raises greater issues for a11y as well as my growing number of elder colleagues who develop, where such things present a substantial access barrier.

[flechemano]

I agree with this

[adlai]

Alex-302 wrote in the toplevel comment:

Another thing to remind - few years ago they removed the Punch Card, which could be used to track your overall activity by days of the week (not Contribution Graph in profile).

Honestly, of all the features on this site, I considered Punch Card to be the one most encouraging of self-harmful behavior, after I realised that "whitening" my own Punch Card was completely destroying my sanity.

[adlai]

flechemano commented:

I agree with this

Please make your comment agreeing with some arbitrary previously-written comment slightly more specific; both this entire thread, and toplevel comment, have multiple items of feedback for the Product Team, and it makes their job much easier if the comments supporting other opinions include a reference to, or summary of, the opinion being strengthened.

[sebthom]

Although I appreciate the ability to hover over the graph and view a tooltip with details, I am not pleased with the other design changes.

1. The new graphs look very blurry and agitated. They also lack dates on the horizontal for better orientation without first having to hover around. Just compare the following screenshots. The new graph looks like a wave form of a distorted sound signal and because of the too thick lines it is harder to see what's going on.

2. The old graph had the ability to zoom using a sliding window into interesting areas. This feature is missing on the new version and you only have a dropdown list where you can select some fixed time frames. You can no longer zoom into a 3 month time frame two years ago.

3. The absence of the light gray background on all the tiles now makes the entire page look bland and dull.

4. In the updated design, the list of contributors now lists everyone, including those with 0 commits within the selected time frame. In the previous design, only contributors who were active during the chosen period were shown.

[shkesar]

+1 Lines are very thick. The color pops out too much.

[hgy59]

2. The old graph had the ability to zoom using a sliding window into interesting areas. This feature is missing on the new version and you only have a dropdown list where you can select some fixed time frames. You can no longer zoom into a 3 month time frame two years ago.

If you insist on the dropdown list, the list needs an additional entry to define custom start and end time.
However, selecting by mouse is much more convenient.

Otherwise the Contributors page has no value for me anymore....

[pkazmier]

Agreed. The new graphs are not as sharp and crisp as the old ones.

[jrafanie]

Agreed on the graph drawing looking terrible. The Y axis range selection is wrong as it appears to pick values that don't have all data points on the graph. Perhaps that's why the lines are blurry/agitated? That, plus the line is just too thick. I don't know. There's so many examples in this issue showing the superior graph drawing before. Hover over on the old graph might be useful but not how they're drawn now.

I like the hover over tooltip type behavior but I don't understand why the hover over for a specific date on the top graph doesn't do anything with the contributors below it. For my repo, I can see 20 commits on a specific day but hovering over it I can't see who contributed on that day because the hover over doesn't seem to affect the contributor list below it. I guess I don't see the point for the hover over for a date if it doesn't really do much.

I like the mouse data selection but ignoring that, the graphs are not very helpful to me.

I had to revert back to the original version. Hopefully, they can address many of the most common problems listed here.

[jpellman]

Click and drag date range selection has been replaced by a date range picker.

Why can't we have both? The click and drag date selection felt extremely intuitive and natural and this new UI update feels like a clunky regression. Having the option to select predefined ranges would be an improvement though in my view.

[chadwhitacre]

The click and drag date selection felt extremely intuitive and natural and this new UI update feels like a clunky regression.

Click-and-drag date selection is was a very common action for me on the contributors tab. For example, I am researching an upcoming podcast guest's past work and I clicked into contributors for a certain project that they supposedly founded 10+ years ago, and through long habit I had clicked and dragged to highlight the early years of the project on where the old chart used to be before realizing that my cheese was no longer there. 🐭

[AJenbo]

It's useful when you are looking performance of someone who started 9 months ago, which isn't an option in the drop down.

[expert2020h]

Do you think having both the click-and-drag date selection and a predefined date range picker would improve the user experience? And in what specific scenarios do you find the current date picker limiting?

[Ma-colla-coder]

Porque no digital cronometrado con comando de voz

[gsum]

Two Issues with the New Design:

1. Previously, the graph allowed for selecting specific time periods by simply dragging, which is no longer possible.
2. Looking through contributions in the individual's table, we could figure out when a person came to the org and left, now it is not possible.

[dumpstarlife]

Agreed.
Also, contributions for the other repo has been turned off or switched to a close knit group.

[satri35]

Do you agree that the removal of the ability to drag and select specific time periods from the graph and the inability to see when a person joined or left the organization has impacted the user experience? How could these issues be addressed?

[norwd]

I feel like the designers got a little carried away with this one, not that I don't appreciate visual changes, but this was a functional feature that I used almost daily at work and now the information I need isn't accessible in the new view.

• When I hover over the code frequency graph, half the graph is almost invisible (at least in dark mode). And the fact that as I move the cursor it flickers between showing additions and deletions, which is distracting (and potentially dangerous for those with epilepsy).
  
• The dotted line for deletions is also very difficult to read when the line is too sharp, which happens in many repos when changes only happen in bursts.
  
• For the contributors graph, previously there was the ability to select a range and drag it to keep the same time period but see the changes as new people joined and old people left a project. The new view allows me to view the number of commits on a given day, but not to see trends over a custom time period.
  
• I like the ability to select from a drop down some common time periods, but having it stuck to the last N days or months, I miss the ability to look at the N days since person X joined or N months since person Y left.
• I also find the line smoothing in the new view to make it too difficult to match a specific person's contributions to the main graph. This is something I also do at least once a week. The new view smooths each individual contributor and this makes the shape too different from the main graph to easily identify "ooh look this person is responsible for this blip in the main graph" or "ahh yes I remember this person was on leave around then so that's why there's this dip".

[norwd]

To be clear, I like the new look, I just want the features back 🙂

[9001]

Rather than remove the zoom feature because it required mouse input, how about adding support for zooming with touch gestures in addition?

Like others have mentioned already, I did not find the previous zoom feature to be "not discoverable", quite the contrary -- it was entirely intuitive. This change has unfortunately made the contributors page far less useful for me.

[FlorianMichael]

I found an issue the new design has, looking at it:

Compared to the old one:

The commit count of both accounts FlorianMichael and FormallyMyles is wrong and doesn't show any activity in the graph either. The repository in question: https://github.com/ViaVersion/viaversion.com.

Beside that, I really agree with what Alex-302, sebthom and all others here said.

[heystewart]

Similar issue here. Four year project, and one day four years ago there were 120 commits for some reason by one person ... fifty developers' graphs are all meaningless since they are now scaled down by 120.

[jlong4223]

Noticing the similar issue on my end. It doesn't appear to be reflecting commit numbers after August 4th in the total commits per user.

[JuliaAya]

same here. It does not show any new activities (does not reflect the number of commits).

[flechemano]

I dont check them so much , not sure do they really work at all

[svgeesus]

Overall I like the new design. The default graph is clearer, and although the date-range axis has coarser labelling the tooltips make up for that.

Being able to select the period from a dropdown is great; I work on a repo with commits going back to 1998 (yes really, we imported the old cvs commit history) and it really helps to see who is currently active without having the graphs distorted by, say, a burst of activity 15 years ago from people who since stopped contributing.

It would be useful to be able to link to a particular view; the url remains constant regardless of which period is selected.

[svgeesus]

I can't comment on the code frequency changes because I just get "There are too many commits to generate this graph."

[jsoref]

In case the project team wants an example, here's a public one: https://github.com/powerdns/pdns/graphs/code-frequency

[MatthewRyanRead]

Same here, and I still see it even when I turn off the new view. So not only are the graphs now worse, but for the projects with lots of activity (where the graphs would be the most useful!) you can't see anything except the commit graph.

[adjkant]

A big +1 to custom range as before! FWIW I understand there's likely some limitations on BE data granularity in consideration, but I don't need it to be day granular. As at least a compromise can we have monthly granular?

The UI for selection was also great before for custom ranges. Would be great to bring that back + have it shown after as a "[month] to [month]" dual input you can select from to tune further

[ilyagr]

I find it valuable to be able to select arbitrary date ranges where the project or a particular person look more/less active. Now, it seems that the only options are "the last X months/weeks/days".

[neekon91]

We've updated two of the repo insights views - contributors and code frequency - to use an new SVG-based solution which enables improved focus navigation to support point-by-point navigation, the ability to hide a series by interacting with the chart legend, as well as the ability to view and download the data as a CSV or PNG.

Contributors

Click and drag date range selection has been replaced by a date range picker. The previous experience required mouse input and was not discoverable, while the new experience is always visible and navigable by keyboard. The current date range is more explicitly listed under the heading The contributor cards are now more responsive on small screens. The previous experience was locked to a 2 column view, where the new experience will wrap to a single column layout. Note: Contributor data is still a weekly rollup of commits.

Code frequency

The 2 different axes are now differentiated by line style, as well as color. Data points are navigable and show more detail in a tooltip, previously you could only reference against the axes visually.

👂Try Out Our New Charts and Share Your Feedback! We invite you to test our new charts and let us know how they work for you. If you have specific feedback, we’d love to hear it! Questions are encouraged too!

🤝 Share Your Experience Have you encountered any issues related to the size and variation of data specific to your repositories?

📋Help Us Prioritize Updates We are in the process of updating charts on GitHub and need your input! Which other charts would you find most valuable to update first?

If you would like to provide feedback anonymously, feel free to use this form.

Thank you for your support and feedback!

Very Cool just wanted to draw your attention to a small bug. When hovering over the graph a tooltip appears and the date is incorrect. It always says Sunday

[svgeesus]

If counts are grouped by week then it will always show the same day of the week

[KK68HK]

Om det va mig du ville ha svar ifrån så kan jag svara att det va dom jobbigaste åren i mitt liv då har jag levt ett ganska jobbigt liv .Jag har skrivit till alla möjliga på nätet om någon har svarat så har det varit spydiga svar någon har varit trevlig.och vad jag en har gjort så fungerade det inte.jag vet inte ens nu vad det igentligen handlat om.Vad jag en skulle göra så kosta det och jag har inte fått ut en enda dollar 2datorer sönder 2 paddor sönder samtidigt när jag ha varit sjuk så svar på frågan är jag tror inte att det finns någon som skulle palla så här länge.Jag hade knappt någon erfarenhet av data så kunde jag inte så bra engelska och det gick inte attgöra översättning varken på tel eller datan och ingen som jag fråga svara för dom trodde attvjag kom från en annan planet.Så att få crypton att slå i europa så blir det nog svårt men inte omöjlig.

[spacey-sooty]

Commits are inconsistent see https://github.com/wpilibsuite/allwpilib/graphs/contributors all for @spacey-sooty on this graph compared to last 12 months. Last 12 months shows an extra commit (and is the same as it was pre change)

[spacey-sooty]

Would be nice to be able to see the overview for a specific date and or date range as well.

[KK68HK]

Tycker du att jag ska stödja något som jag inte har en aning om vad ni gör.Jag blir så blåst hela tiden och ni tycker att jag bara ska hålla med vad jag en försöker göra så fungerar det inte och ni tycker att jag ska gilla det nej så trött på det här. mån 16 dec. 2024 kl. 12:06 skrev Adlai ***@***.***>:

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[yar1vn]

Can we get a graph for number of PRs or lines of code?
Squashing commits really skews this number towards people who don't.

[adlai]

Not a perfect workaround, however when viewing the Contributors graph, there is a dropdown named Contributions that lets you select either Additions or Deletions.

I'm currently unsatisfied with it because I moved a bunch of files into a directory, and now my entire history is drowned out by a huge bunch of additions and deletions, although I didn't change a single line within the files in that commit.

[mknaranja]

I'd also love to see opened and merged PRs, opened and closed issues etc.

[Ma-colla-coder]

Necesito ayuda El jue, 19 de dic de 2024, 10:49 a. m., Yariv Nissim < ***@***.***> escribió:

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[adlai]

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[jlguenego]

Code Frequency Diagram in Github.

Please add a doc explaining what is a addition or a deletion and in what unit you are measuring this. This is not ovious. In fact I don't understand this diagram.

[big-c-note]

The commit numbers are not accurate for our codebase. One of our developers probably has 100 commits or so, and it shows 2 for him on develop branch.

[lynns]

We have an older repo that has a over 10,000 commits. This caused the graphs to stop showing addition/deletion stats and just commit counts. I understand that there are probably performance issues with totally those stats for the entire history of the repo, but it would be nice to still get those counts if we've selected a timeframe that drops the total commit count below 10,000 during that time frame.

[grexe]

I am missing a way to select the branch for the code frequency graph - it seems it always takes the main branch, but it should automatically pick the one selected in the "Code" tab and provide a way to change to another branch.

[sheamusburns]

bug? : all graphs should match the y axis max for the time period selected.

Don't really have the time to read through all these and try to figure out if my feedback has already been recorded, but when you're viewing the contributor view, and you look at additions, for example, when you change the time period, the Y axis scale shifts according to what is the max value within that period, but at the same time, the Y axis scales for all the individual contributors remain at the original max, as if the period wasn't selected, ie (all time). This appears to be a bug. I believe the expected behavior would be that the Y axis scales for each contributor graph should also shift to match what the main graph displays.

[maxcherednik]

1. Previous view was better in term of UX.
2. It seems to be showing different metrics now. Half of my contributions are not visible.

[marcglasberg]

A question (bug?):

The user knaeckeKami is not showing as a contributor to this repo:

https://github.com/marcglasberg/fast_immutable_collections/graphs/contributors

But he clearly did contribute, as you can see here:

marcglasberg/fast_immutable_collections#13

It's not the only contributor that's missing.

[mknaranja]

I still miss the option that I, as owner of a repository, could set / predefine selected ranges to be viewed or define y axis scale (in particular max). Just because one user once pushed 34 commits to the repo at one day, the max is now set for all times to 48 and contributions of all other users look mostly like zero.

[adlai]

I think you can download CSV from some dropdown next to the chart; obviously it is only a workaround, please keep complaining to the folks with actual power to influence things.

[mknaranja]

yes, that's true. But that's also only local. I'd love to set this inside the repo.

[jws1837]

Let them drag to select a date as before

[buddhika75]

Can not select a specific period. In the past, it was a very useful to get an insight in to the past.

[Ma-colla-coder]

Bueno creo que están en los ochentas sus gráficos parece ecualizador,como miden las bollas los flujos de corriente que viajan siempre por las mismas coordenadas transportando plantonque producen una frecuencia de onda eléctrica,ese es el código,todo se transporta a través de energía,ondas radiales,todo es posible en lugar de ir por el principio,del final de tu idea ve al principio.por que si tienes el principio por qué así nació tu inquietud, sabés el final, leé al revés,no te enfoques en como llegar de la A a la B y la depuración ya se hace es como fotos duplicadas o números de celulares repetidos, solo necesitas saber que letra o número tiene más probabilidad de repetir y que no afecte la estructura de la corriente,esa es la que empuja y transporta ,solo tienes que incrustar lo que combina y siempre da el mismo resultado,hay va marcar el tiempo q tiene que tener el mismo ritmo para la salida,ese es el candado de que el código no fue modificado en la marca de tiempo de salida..para hacerlo único ,de la A para que la marca de tiempo de salida,solo necesita un comodín,una silla si así se les hace más gracioso.no todo son números,letras, los pulsos electromagneticos,piensa como viaja una onda de radio,retrocede y leé al revés los libros que guardan la información del último salto de una tecnología que cambió drásticamente el presente,ve al pasado y encontrarás la respuesta...yo no sé las doy; por qué no son un equipo por eso no encuentran lo que tienen atrás; yo soy abogado y mi trabajo es diseñar estrategias,y q la ley se adapte a ellas y no al revés; pero que les pedí ayuda, pero están tan ocupados inflando su ego y caminando por dónde otros caminaron,ustedes solo.modifican pero no creeann nada , no tienen motivación ni empatía. Que tan fácil fue romper la plataforma de todas las plataformas y de corbata telegram y mercado libre.. ustedes van como ovejas al 20-30,yo tengo un código que puede transportar () del ADN y es inviolable,ha y también me gradué de físico matemático, pero no sé por qué siempre se el resultado de (?????)' y siempre me han dicho que soy bien mamón para hablar,pero soy más bravo y me gusta pensar en el bien común... bueno hay les dejo el acertijo 🥱🇲🇽⚖️