The GitHub website is slow on Safari

Post by kokanee » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:35 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #166

PedroBatista wrote: post #11

The Github website is slow everywhere. It is truly a piece of shit software both in terms of performance but also UX/UI and everything in between. It's a product of many cooks and their brilliant ideas and KPIs, a social network for devs and code being the most "brilliant" of them all. For day to day dev operations is something so mediocre even Gitlab looks like the golden standard compared to Github. And no, the pro…

"The Github website is slow everywhere." Perhaps it depends what software one is using For example, commandline search and tarball/zipball retrieval from the website, e.g., github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com and codeload.github.com, are not slow for me, certainly not any slower than Gitlab I do not use a browser nor do I use the git software

Post by trenchpilgrim » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

shadowgovt wrote: post #170

eviks wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, certainly, didn't mean that you had to avoid using your IDE to autorename a variable yourself (to avoid the boolean issue) and diffed results to those of the PR Or that you had to avoid Ctrl+F "CustomerEmail" and see whether you had 1000 matches that matches the number of changed files or only 999 due to some typo. Or using the web interface to filter by file type to batch your reviews. Or... Just that in none of…

I envy your IDE being able to do a rename of that scale. I work in a large C++ codebase and a rename like that will actually just crash my vscode instance straight-up. (There are good automated tools that make it straightforward to script up a repository-wide mutation like this however. But they still generate PRs that require human review; in the case of the one I used, it'd break the PR up into tranches of 50-ish f…

Post by lenkite » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:48 PM UTC

ori_b wrote: post #124

PedroBatista wrote: post #11

The Github website is slow everywhere. It is truly a piece of shit software both in terms of performance but also UX/UI and everything in between. It's a product of many cooks and their brilliant ideas and KPIs, a social network for devs and code being the most "brilliant" of them all. For day to day dev operations is something so mediocre even Gitlab looks like the golden standard compared to Github. And no, the pro…

It's frustrating, because GitHub used to perform quite well, before it was a single page app.

Post by enginaar » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

whstl wrote: post #33

ballenf wrote: post #19

Can someone who's worked in an org this large help me understand how this happens? They surely do testing against major browsers and saw the performance issues before releasing. Is there really someone who gave the green light?

The way it works in tech today is that there are three groups: - Project managers putting constant pressure on developers to deliver as fast as possible. It doesn't even matter if velocity will be lost in the future, or if the company might lose customers, or even if it breaks the law. - Developers pushing back on things that can backfire and burning political capital and causing constant burnout. And when things DO…

Post by bapak » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #199

GitHub web used to be great. Then some charlatan thought to embrace the React hype and it became terrible to say the least.