HACKER Q&A
📣 MatMercer

Do you see a Pancake in the top left menu at Github.com?


I'm not kidding.

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  👤 lfx Accepted Answer ✓
Why so much hate.

I think this is brilliant way to announce new features!

It is playful, it is nice, it is something new. Don't take it too seriously.


👤 causalmodels
It is wild that amidst all these platform stability issues, GH has decided now is the time to do cutesy marketing for a new feature

👤 jlund-molfese
Imagine being a new GitHub user and you're trying to find the menu. Realizing that you have to click on a bunch of pancakes to get where you need to go would be pretty annoying.

👤 MatMercer
I tried anonymous browsing + secondary account + different computer and I still see it:

https://imgur.com/sWQX06Y

wth


👤 jk89b7
It's probably to advertise the Stacked PRs feature: https://github.github.com/gh-stack

Not cute..I thought something had been compromised when I initially saw it.


👤 drivers99
I created a new account there and have the same thing.

There are some posts about it on /r/github


👤 Ryan492
Yes, logged in on GitHub in the Netherlands

👤 api_dude_365
yes i see the pancakes haha. The future is now

👤 TheWiggles
The AI was hungry

👤 dkdbejwi383
Yes

👤 eff_it
TF ... got it as well .

What a time to be alive


👤 coolaj86
I did some tech support yesterday and there were 4 different search bars on the screen and several "hamburger" or "triple dot" menus. It was a nightmare trying to communicate "the search bar in the middle left menu list" and "the triple dot on the right below the search bar".

Considering that Github's new target market is people who don't know how to read or code, I think this is a genius move.