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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

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Re: Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

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It's also getting a lot flakier. Around October or November of last year I realized that every week I see another bit of SPA jankiness. I lose my scroll position because some component has appeared or disappeared above view. The issues list shows hours-old state and does not refresh. A button doesn't work. A page loads but everything below the header is unstyled. I expand the build details but it collapses closed eve…

My favourite github UIUX snafu is being unable to navigate back to the root repo page when I'm in some sort of complex view, or being able to go to the authors profile in less than like 5 clicks.

Re going to author's profile, I usually just give up, and go to the URL to fix the address.

You'd think clicking on author's name in commit log view would bring you to their profile — social coding, after all — yet it simply filters the log by author.

Just checked, apparently, they do have a tooltip popup in "Commits" log view to go directly to the author, but who has the time to wait 1s until the tooltip's appearance? Clicking on the name simply filters commits by the author, clicking again, just reloads the same page you're already on — but, hey, at least they didn't break the URL addresses yet!

Re: Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

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This looks pretty cool! Do you have a privacy policy?

Thanks! Good question. I don't have now right now but I can prepare one soon. In any case I store zero information from users. When you are logged in traffic goes directly from your browser to GitHub.

FWIW, it's rendering white-on-white for me. Looks like it's missing unless you select-all.

Re: Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

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post #121

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My favourite github UIUX snafu is being unable to navigate back to the root repo page when I'm in some sort of complex view, or being able to go to the authors profile in less than like 5 clicks.

Re going to author's profile, I usually just give up, and go to the URL to fix the address. You'd think clicking on author's name in commit log view would bring you to their profile — social coding, after all — yet it simply filters the log by author. Just checked, apparently, they do have a tooltip popup in "Commits" log view to go directly to the author, but who has the time to wait 1s until the tooltip's appearanc…

I believe clicking the picture navigates you to the profile
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