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• Click and drag date range selection has been replaced by a date range picker.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

[ibz]

Indeed, you guys literally destroyed one feature that I was using all the time and worked very well. What is the point of this change really?

[zkamvar]

Please do not remove the ability to choose a specific date range!

[Divrr]

+1

[vmagamedov]

The only reason to use this feature was to see contributions over all time (default), over last ~year (maintainers), over first ~year (original authors), over some specific time range. Selecting the range by mouse was quick and intuitive, graph itself was looking fantastic. And this change totally destroys the main purpose of this view. I don't care about specific numbers when I hover the graph, I can see the numbers I need below the graph, where you see commits number over time range per contributor.

[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.

[svgeesus]

4. In the new design, when you limit the timeframe, the list of contributors still includes everyone, even those with 0 commits during that period. In the old design, only contributors who were active within the selected timeframe were displayed.

I agree that removing zero-commits would be cleaner

[wilkerlucio]

Yes, these new lines are way too thick, the old was way better to read.

[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.

[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. 🐭

[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.

[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.

[penn201500]

Just found the same issue. The old version is much more straightforward if the contributors' commit count differs significantly.

[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).

[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

[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

[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.

[aybabtme]

The new contributor graph is quite ugly. The gradient area under the curve looks cringe, the line is too thick and the smoothed curve looks like a PowerPoint slide from the 90s.

[frou]

When the chart is dense (i.e. Period: All), the line is drawn too thick and this makes it unpleasant to interpret.

[nakshay]

This is the worst UI that GH could come up in years .

[gsouf]

Wrong, the worst is the day they made the top bar dark

[jsandeep97]

No, don't tell like that guys.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Can we please have an option to filter out bots? Especially auto-updaters like dependabot, renovate, and snyk? Their contributions are generally not meaningful to understanding contributors and or community for a repository.

For example, on https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/graphs/contributors, the 3rd and 4th highest contributors are dependabot[bot] and renovate[bot]. We've never looked at the graph wanting to see how they contribute. The questions we'd typically want answered are more like "how much are community contributions growing?" -- which is harder to tell when we include variable noise like bots.

[LitoMore]

Yes. Both contributors on graphs and the project homepage are not needed. I also created a topic on https://github.com/community/maintainers/discussions/398.

[ctiller]

Please restore the ability to get line counts past 10k commits

[noyoliel-devocean]

In code frequency,
we started the project from large repo changes and now that the changes are minor, I see a flat line. It would be nice if I can check a specific period of time so that I can actually see something in the graph

In contributors,
Please change the default view to 1 year or a shorter time table. 3 or more years back is less interesting when you want to understand who currently contributes to the organization. Also, it would be great if there was an option that describes how spread the changes are. Meaning if they are focused in certain areas or spread cross system in order to understand infra structure changes vs feature specific changes

[zwillikon]

Bring back the time filtering.

[spookyahell]

I'd be happy with an option to filter "since fork date"

I need nothing else.

[norwd]

Please provide funds dear to authenticate this Application

Obvious bot.

[jsandeep97]

Look I am not a bot, I am a human being

[aleksandarbusjovic]

Please bring back the time filtering in graph. Presets are good but to have but I think you should keep the old way of time selection on the graph itself too... Also there is no ability to view the contributions by additions, deletions, and total no. of lines of code commited by users in the new UI.

IMO old UI was much more functional and better. Those new changes actually made the UX worse and crippled the functionalities.

[jsandeep97]

Old UI is good but change it to somewhat latest in the settings option

[Bilge]

Not only is this new graph harder to read (lower fidelity) but it also removed the zoom function to target contributions for a specific period of time. Literally every change is objectively worse than what was already present and available for years before. Please revert to upgrade this back to how it was before.

[zadr]

the y axis of the new charts becomes very interesting very quickly: because the new beta insights tab is trying to apply the same y axis scale to everyone, one person having a series of automated commits is enough to throw it off for everyone. Consider this chart, where one person had 673 commits on one day, without anyone else having over 25:

[jsandeep97]

Can't you understand this much also.

[spookyahell]

Can I just ask if there's an option to implement easily narrowing the date range down to not something like
"last 3 months" or so but instead "only contributions since forked" (trying to see only the "new collaborators")

[jsandeep97]

NO

[spookyahell]

@jsandeep97 YES!!!

[ddevsr]

I have something idea for this annoying mouse pointer to top but cannot reach. Better implementation abillity selector area for zoom in and double click for reset.

https://adminlte.io/themes/v3/pages/charts/uplot.html You can see area chart

[vmagamedov]

The only reason to use this feature was to see contributions over all time (default), over last ~year (maintainers), over first ~year (original authors), over some specific time range (spikes). Selecting the range by mouse was quick, precise and intuitive, graph itself was looking fantastic. And this change totally destroys the main purpose of this view.

I don't care about specific numbers when I hover the graph, I can see the numbers I need below the graph, where you see commits number over time range per contributor.

The graph itself with exact numbers is not that important, what you want to see is something similar to amplitude-time graph which is used to visualise sound, you don't hover over such graph to see exact values, you just need to visually see activity over time. And an old version was doing this really well.

The new graph is more suitable to show stock prices IMO :)

[norwd]

👍 first insightful comment on this discussion in weeks