Refined GitHub
Shares rank 55 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Browser extension that adds defaults and fixes to make GitHub's interface more usable, recommended as a free addition to the stock UI. One critic reports some features not working.
Browser extension that adds defaults and fixes to make GitHub's interface more usable, recommended as a free addition to the stock UI. One critic reports some features not working.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Makes default GitHub UI more usable
“has some defaults that make the default view a little more tolerable”
Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “Turn Dependabot Off” “which fixes a lot of these problems”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team” “to make the UI somewhat usable”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations” Good ideas on top of GitHub
“loads of great ideas there for the GitHub team”
Comment from 26 Apr 2026 in “GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup” “Still worth adding on top of the stock UI.”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “GitHub no longer uses Toasts”
Other browser extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other browser extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SponsorBlock | 137 | 4 | 97% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Firefox Multi-Account Containers | 76 | 13 | 85% | 10 | 7.5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| NoScript | 61 | 11 | 85% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| Refined GitHubThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“These are not working for me right now”
“loads of great ideas there for the GitHub team”
“There's already something like this for GitHub”
“has some defaults that make the default view a little more tolerable”
“which fixes a lot of these problems”
“to make the UI somewhat usable”
“Still worth adding on top of the stock UI.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.