I merged three pull requests today. A data table post, a retitle, and another retitle, all on the portfolio repo. Every one of them followed the same little ritual. Open the PR, scroll past the description, scroll past the comments, keep scrolling, and somewhere near the bottom, find the merge box and check whether it is green. I do that over and over across four repos, and it always felt backwards, like checking whether the front door is locked by walking to the back of the house first.

GitHub shipped a redesigned Overview page on November 5, as an opt-in public preview, and it moves the answer to the top. The merge box is now a compact readiness summary pinned near the top of the PR, showing merge status, checks, comments, approvals, and what to do next, all in under half the space the old merge box took. You can read the full announcement in the changelog .…