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Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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post #34

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

> I hope they’ll improve performance. it's Microsoft, so the answer is: buy a new computer (which comes with a bundled Windows license)

yeah I'll keep my M3

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I tried it! I like it generally, but it’s too buggy. The whole diff explodes if you expand to more lines (for example). It’s easy to switch back.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#43
post #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...

How big are these jobs? I’ve never seen an action take more than 15s to start

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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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?

As someone who has worked in and with large orgs, the better question is "why does this always happen?". In large organizations "ownership" of a product becomes more nebulous from a product and code standpoint due to churn and a focus on short-sighted goals. If you put a lot of momentum behind a product with that mentality you get features piled on tech debt, no one gets enthusiastic about paying that down because it…

At this point "ownership" is just a buzzword thrown around by management types that has no meaning.

If a developer has to put up a fight in order to push back against the irresponsibility of a non-technical person, they by definition don't have ownership.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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I wondered if it was something new, or that it was just the larger than average pull requests these days I have with AI coding.

Good to know others are feeling it too, hopefully it can get resolved soon. In the mean time, i'll try my PR reviews on FF.

Update: Just tested my big PR (+8,661, -1,657) on FF and it worked like a charm!

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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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..."

How long until those improvements reach users? I assume it requires an OS update or does Safari use something similar to Firefox and Chrome for faster updates?

There is a developer version you can install. There is beta, but that overrides your existing Safari and rollback might be tricky sometimes.

But there is also the Safari Technology Preview, which installs as a separate app, but is also a bit more unstable. Similar to Chrome Canary.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#48
post #34

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

> I hope they’ll improve performance. it's Microsoft, so the answer is: buy a new computer (which comes with a bundled Windows license)

We are at a point where buying a new computer doesn’t actually help.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#49
post #7

It truly feels like Jira.

Wait until you plug it into JIRA, strap copilot and actions on it. Then you can have all flavours of hell at once. Our org has ground to a halt. A lot of the time we just break the branch permissions on the repo we are using and run release branches without PRs and ignore the entire web interface.

Just because I went to look it up, I thought I'd share. Looks like Atlassian removed the bit from the Terms of Service where you were prohibited from:

> publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Products

https://web.archive.org/web/20210624221204/https://www.atlas...

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