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Looks great! Though I don't have high expectations for any desktop Github client to support the hundreds of features and workflows of Git, I mainly use it as a souped-up `git status`.

I would prefer Github to bend a little more money and effort toward mobile. The Github Android app is half-finished and doesn't have the one basic feature that everyone wants from it - notifications.

It would also be nice for the mobile version of the Github site to have basic feature parity with the desktop version. And it would be nice for Gist to have a mobile version, period, or at least unbroken viewport scaling.

I developed the first GitHub client on Android way back in 2009/2010 and called it Hubroid. At one point it was much more complete than the current official app, but the version currently in the Play Store is a rewrite that is less feature-filled than the official client.

I've been planning to pick back work up on it again, especially if there was interest in it.

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