Assigning categories/lists to starred repos stopped working

[Marat-Tanalin]

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Hello. Assigning categories/lists to starred repos stopped working a week or two ago: I check a checkbox of a category, then refresh the page (tried both F5 and Ctrl+F5 with the same result), and the checkbox becomes unchecked. This happens both when first explicit starring then assigning a category, and when implicit starring via assigning a category.

This started happening approximately at the same moment when the checkbox frontend-implementation was apparently changed to the new laggy one.

Recent reports on Reddit:

• Recently, the adding or removing a project from a list is not saving
• Can't add new ones to starred lists
• Can't assign starred repos to my choice of list

Also found a previous report with multiple comments:
After changing the UI, new stars cannot be categorized. #178947

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Hi @Marat-Tanalin

Thanks for flagging this. We’ve added your experience to the ongoing internal review and we’ll follow up in this thread as soon as a fix ships.

In the meantime, there's already an active discussion about this topic here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/179038

Please feel free to join that conversation and add your perspective. This helps keep similar discussions together so everyone can benefit from the collective knowledge!

If you notice any changes (such as it working again or showing a different error), feel free to reply with the details — that kind of feedback is very helpful.

Thanks again for contributing to the community.

[Marat-Tanalin]

Works for me now, thanks.