Matt Butler

Huge milestone for the GitHub Issues team today - this also makes custom fields in Projects even easier to share across an org / multiple projects. Keeping teams in sync 💪

Now even faster to get started with GitHub Projects!

@beingminimal @matthewisabel This is on our radar 👍

@matthewisabel This same AND & OR query is not supported in GitHub Projects please make it supported. Thanks

github issues team has been flying through the top requests backlog

More details github.blog/changelog/2026…

Two highly requested updates today to improve the maintainer experience on GitHub Issues - pinned comments and a new nudge to reduce '+1' comments 🎉

We are keeping the tempo going with this huge update on GitHub Issue search. More highly requested improvements for Issues dropping on Thursday.... 👀

@tobiaslins @RhysSullivan It's only rolled out for a subset of navigations at the moment - should be fast from any repo /issues page. DM me (or post here github.com/orgs/community…) if not and we will get it fixed

@RhysSullivan Do I need to opt in? Still very slow here in Vienna

holy shit it's so much better, it feels instant thank you github

@vnicolici @RhysSullivan Drop a screenshot of anything on the issues page that isn't getting updates into github.com/orgs/community… and we will get it fixed.

@RhysSullivan Yeah, but now many elements no longer automatically update. I have to manually refresh the pages to see updated pull request and action progress, for example.

@maksim_ka2 @matthewisabel Can you DM your username + set up and we will figure out what is happening here

@matthewisabel Opposite experience here: Issues/PRs tabs became a nightmare. The list loads, then reloads a split second later. Any filter changes during that window are lost. I’ve literally trained myself to freeze for a second every time I open it. Started around ~3–6 months ago.

GitHub issues is now much faster. A lot of perf improvements in the queue.

We just shipped some huge performance improvements when navigating issues from a repo/issues dashboard/projects 🚀🚀🚀 github.blog/changelog/2026…

@ocornut @github I appreciate that, and we are working hard to fix these things as we find them - so thanks for sharing it. It is now fixed! 🎉 Next up - a whole bunch of performance improvements coming your way 😀

@MattButler138 @github It’s unfortunately easy to spiral into a circle of snarky complains and being hopeless when the streak of being ignored is not being broken by an enabled and proactive voice. 🙏

Was eager to start my week before I realized that @github now refuses to let me see all issues on my own repository??!! It's unacceptable and very stressful. My issues are carefully labelled, but not all interactions are based on label/keyword searches. Let me see my Issues.

@ocornut @github This actually looks like more a recent regression, we did have this limit in place for a while but were able to remove it. We are figuring out why it is back...

@MattButler138 @github Thank you Matt for reaching out. I regularly review my issues linearly and it is nice to have the option. If this is some kind of throttling may I suggest it isn’t activated for project maintainers.

@awesomekling @jaredpalmer @github haha not yet - but🤞soon!

@MattButler138 @jaredpalmer @github That looks super useful! Would definitely use. Is this where you tell me it's already available in production and I just didn't see it? 😅

How can we make @GitHub Issues better for both maintainers and contributors?

@pablodecortes @jaredpalmer @github For depends and blocks, we have dependencies under the 'relationships' section in the sidebar. But we still need to add 'related to' github.blog/changelog/2025…

I just tried linking two issues from different repositories, but it doesn’t work — it always adds one as a sub-issue, even when I select “Add existing issue” instead of “Create sub-issue.” I’d like to be able to create issues/tasks/whatever (tied or not tied to a specific repository) and define relationships between them — for example, “this task depends on that one” or “this task is blocked by that task,” etc.

@awesomekling @jaredpalmer @github Would something like this concept help - where you can create saved/shared views. As an example, a view might filter for label=JS engine or CSS layout. Giving you a quick way to jump between those categories?

Not exactly. We're building a web browser at github.com/LadybirdBrowse… and it's composed of many smaller components, but it's all in one big monorepo. It would be super useful for us if we could create issue categories for subcomponents within the monorepo, and browse those independently. Some example categories we might use: "JS engine", "CSS layout", "HTML parser", "Network stack", etc.

@awesomekling @jaredpalmer @github Is this Issue Types? Or something else? github.blog/changelog/2025…

@jaredpalmer @github User-defined categories! A single top-level category works fine for the typical small GitHub project, but for bigger projects, being able to create issue categories would be immensely valuable. (Even better if categories can be nested!)

@pablodecortes @jaredpalmer @github Can you tell me more about the linking? We have recently added parent/child linking (sub-issues) and dependencies. Are there other relationship types that would help?

Currently GitHub Projects are tightly coupled to repos and issues. I understand the need but I would really like some lightweight alternative of the Linear to not jump back and forth and GitHub projects could become it. 1. Tasks are tied to specific repo. What if my task assumes work in multiple repo? What if I don't really know what repos will be there and just want to create task for investigate? 2. Tasks cannot be easily linked to each other, sometimes it's a nightmare trying to achieve that. 3. I don't actually know because I didn't use projects enough because of the first 2 reasons mainly but if you are looking for life-quality update for github, a lot of people would love to see this happening github.com/orgs/community…

@baswollenberg @jaredpalmer @pablodecortes @github This one is coming soon :)

@jaredpalmer @pablodecortes @github gotta wonder why it's still not possible to sort issues by created/updated date in Projects. Seems like an incredibly basic thing to want

@thdxr @jaredpalmer @github Have you tried the updated dashboard? github.blog/changelog/2025…

@jaredpalmer @github yeah + sort for examples of how we use it, i have a view in linear for "unassigned issues" that we try to keep clear then i have a personal view of issues assigned to me sorted by last updated so i can catch up on activity from commenters