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Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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Improvements merged within the last two days by the WebKit team: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170922#discuss... For my sins I occasionally create large PRs (> 1,000 files) in GitHub, and teammates (who mostly all use Chrome) will sometimes say "I'll approve once it loads for me..."

That seems essentially unreviewable. If you can share without violating an NDA, what kind of PR would involve that many files?

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#22
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And no, the problem is not "Rails" The problem is they abandoned rails for react. The old SSR GitHub experience was very good. You could review massive PRs on any machine before they made the move.

Well yeah, but just imagine how much money they’re saving by delivering a subpar experience!

Or how much money they are capturing in investiments or corporate deals because of the tech stack

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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post #15

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…

> And no, the problem is not "Rails" The problem is they abandoned rails for react. The old SSR GitHub experience was very good. You could review massive PRs on any machine before they made the move.

if you look at the thread, the explanation is not this easy, as much as it's satisfying to blame React (or any other single tech)

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#25
post #5

Improvements merged within the last two days by the WebKit team: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170922#discuss... For my sins I occasionally create large PRs (> 1,000 files) in GitHub, and teammates (who mostly all use Chrome) will sometimes say "I'll approve once it loads for me..."

That seems essentially unreviewable. If you can share without violating an NDA, what kind of PR would involve that many files?

Can’t speak for the person above but we keep a lot of configuration files in git and could easily write a thousand new configs in a single PR, or adding a new key to all the configs for example.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#26

GitHub Actions is such a pain to use just because of how sluggish it feels. I hope they’ll improve performance.

We used to use bitbucket Web hooks that used to trigger Jenkins jobs. This was almost instant. Now after migrating to GH actions it can take minutes before jobs start on push for example...

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#27
It not just safari, in firefox its slow too.

I see loading spanner everywhere and even the page transition take ages compared to before.

I am not sure what metric they are using justify ditching the perfectly working SSR they used before.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#28
post #5

Improvements merged within the last two days by the WebKit team: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170922#discuss... For my sins I occasionally create large PRs (> 1,000 files) in GitHub, and teammates (who mostly all use Chrome) will sometimes say "I'll approve once it loads for me..."

That seems essentially unreviewable. If you can share without violating an NDA, what kind of PR would involve that many files?

Ones where you have a lot of generated files you commit into Git, and you change the output of the generator tool.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#29

Unfortunately this is the fate of most modern sites, they start off simple then they start bloating the website with social media and analytics. SV blokes don't care or notice on their $5k+ top of the line laptops but for everyone else it's an issue

except it's slow on top of the line laptops, too, so they there's zero excuses

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#30

I've read comments online (here on HN) that Github has been rewriting their UI in React and that it's got slower since. I have no knowledge if this is true or not (ie React -> speed direct correlation), and my own projects are small enough not to see any performance impact. Does anyone have concrete information?

They just pushed a new redesigned page for pull request diffs- must have bloated the DOM.

I still see a little "try the new experience" link on the PR diff page (top right of page) so the rollout might be gradual. I won't click.
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