Old School GitHub

Revert GitHub's UI back to its classic look (before the June 23, 2020 update that has a flat, rounded and more whitespaced design).

Old School GitHub Chrome Extension

Old School GitHub is a Chrome extension that reverts GitHub's UI back to its classic look, restoring features such as moving header tabs, highlighting selected page in the header, classic-style buttons and labels, adding row separators in the file explorer, and removing circular user images and rounded corners. It fixes various UI issues with GitHub and is available on GitHub for code contributions.
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Extension stats

Users: 371
4
Rating: 5.00
(11)
Version: 1.9.0 (Last updated: 2024-06-17)
Creation date: 2020-06-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Size: 18.91K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Old School 1047 (v8.25.1.75)
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Old School GitHub (v1.9.0)
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Extension summary

Code available on GitHub https://github.com/daattali/oldschool-github-extension

Features

  1. Move header tabs to main content area: In the June update, GitHub moved the header buttons ("Code"/"Issues"/"Pull Requests"/etc) to the far left of the page. This became an issue if you have a big wide monitor because those buttons are now very very far from the rest of the page content. If you're on a laptop you probably won't notice the difference.

  2. Highlight selected page in header: Prior to the update, the selected page you're on was clearly highlighted. The update made the current page selection much more subtle.

  3. Classic-syle buttons and labels: The old buttons had depth and bold font, and the new buttons are flat and look less clickable.

  4. Add row separators in file explorer: The file explorer that shows all the files and folders currently has no borders between rows, making it harder to read the file list.

  5. Remove circular user images and rounded corners everywhere: The new circular user photos result in unwanted rounding near the corners, cropping significant features from photos that are intended to be square for some users. Many other items were also made very round.

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User reviews

Nice.
by M Danne Febrian, 2021-05-17

New GitHub design really is a joke. It looks horrible on my wide screen monitors. Luckily there is this extension to bring back a more functional design, thank you!
by Dan The Man, 2020-11-24

Awesome extension! keep it up :D
by Anthony Morassutti, 2020-09-18
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Old School GitHub requires very minimum permissions.

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