The 'Releases' section in the 'Refreshed Repository' design sidebar is redundant

Is it? The Releases tab points to /releases while that section can point straight to the latest release at /releases/v2.3.4

However… /releases will most likely show the latest release first, so this may be right.

The Releases tab points to /releases while that section can point straight to the latest release at /releases/v2.3.4

The section header and the '+ x releases' link at the bottom of the section, both point to /releases
whereas the tag that lists the latest release - that is the only one that points directly to the latest release. That is why I mentioned that that information might be lost. But I am doubtful how many people actually use that link to go the latest release. I think most people go to the release page and like you said

/releases will most likely show the latest release first

which is my case for the argument that the section is redundant

Why hide it instead of removing it?

I was thinking in terms of when the sidebar becomes sticky ( #3349 ) and the view has scrolled down quite a bit. There, one would not have quick access to the Releases Tab and would prefer to see the Releases section in the sticky sidebar. At that point, if we wanted to re-activate the section, we would not be able to if the section was completely removed.

I was thinking for the future. Also, there maybe other features or ( even external extensions ) that query the DOM for the Releases section and not finding it would break them. After all, we are not removing an empty section without any content, we are removing a section that is seemingly redundant when the Releases Tab is in view. That information could still be useful when the Releases Tab is not in view.

maybe other features or ( even external extensions ) that query the DOM for the Releases section and not finding it would break them

This is a good reason

would prefer to see the Releases section in the sticky sidebar

This is not. The sticky sidebar depends on the height, so we can't make it taller once it becomes sticky, because it would invalidate the calculation.

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I think this should be mentioned in the description of releases-tab feature.

I think this should be mentioned in the description of releases-tab feature.

I agree, I wish this was behind a feature flag itself. I did use this more than I thought it would, to directly go to the latest release which often contains the release notes/change log (like this repo).

Is there any possibility this would get its own feature flag? I understand this is a heavily opinionated set of refinements so of course if there's no chance for that, I'll just disable releases-tab as a compromise. I'd also be happy to contribute :)

What if we merged https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/blob/master/source/features/hide-empty-meta.tsx
With ⬆️ and 47a2849 into one feature of clean-repo-sidebar?