Gists Get no Love?

[Justintime50]

I was really hoping Gists would get some love - some announcement at the keynote? There's still no way to search or organize your gists, the UI is vastly different than the normal GitHub repo views. With multiple pages of gists, it's difficult to manage.

Is there a place GitHub takes feature suggestions or a forum we can bring this up in to get it viewed by someone that can take it to their product team?

[ossanna16]

Hi there @Justintime50! Great questions! We have a big Product Feedback section in the Community in Discussions. I would encourage you to post your thoughts there.

[Justintime50]

Gists isn't even a category there 😭 Thanks!

[ossanna16]

I know 😞 I suppose it's one of the lesser used features but your feedback will still be appreciated!

[omerbensaadon]

As a PM at GitHub, I also feel Gists don't get enough love 💔 (I am one of the few PMs I know that uses them regularly)

Help me make the case! What do better gists mean to you? What features are missing?

What would better Gists mean for how you (or your peers) use GitHub?

[Justintime50]

I love Gists! Great place to dump snippets or short guides.

The biggest two things missing in my mind that would make them great is search and lists like repositories or stars have. I'd love to be able to search through my gists for keywords or titles instead of clicking through a half dozen pages to find one of my first few Gists that I use often. Being able to organize them into categories or lists would also help the navigation drastically.

It also feels awkward that Gists are their own interface? Why is everything on GitHub under a unified UI while Gists get their own and you have to "go back to GitHub" to dive back into repos? Shouldn't Gists act and feel just like a list of repos?

[monperrus]

FTR, product feedback about Gists that are not integrated in Github search: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/138097