GitHub Is Having Trouble Counting Things
GitHub is Having Trouble Counting Things Sep 2026 In the past week, I’ve noticed two pretty severe UI bugs in GitHub. The first is an overcounting of PRs in the tab on a repository, this is particularly common after you merge a PR, but it’s not the only trigger of this behavior. To add insult to injury, the right count is even right there on this page.
- ▪GitHub is Having Trouble Counting Things Sep 2026 In the past week, I’ve noticed two pretty severe UI bugs in GitHub.
- ▪The first is an overcounting of PRs in the tab on a repository, this is particularly common after you merge a PR, but it’s not the only trigger of this behavior.
- ▪To add insult to injury, the right count is even right there on this page.
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| Original publisher | Chuckgreenman |
| Canonical URL | https://chuckgreenman.com/2026/09/16/counting-at-github |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:31:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T19:08:41.546Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T19:08:41.546Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | U1ho-F2qFWOb · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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GitHub is Having Trouble Counting Things Sep 2026 In the past week, I’ve noticed two pretty severe UI bugs in GitHub. The first is an overcounting of PRs in the tab on a repository, this is particularly common after you merge a PR, but it’s not the only trigger of this behavior. To add insult to injury, the right count is even right there on this page. The second occurred while I was trying to set up Sentry. I’ve been using GitHub for 11 years now, so I have collected three pages of org memberships. Unfortunately for me, the project I’m setting up Sentry for is on the second page. For some reason, Chrome doesn’t let you modify the address in the bar for these pop-up windows. Luckily, you can force navigate using JavaScript.
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