The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#1

Post by talboren » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 9:43 AM UTC

The GitHub website is slow on Safari
github.com

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#2

Post by vintagedave » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

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?

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#3

Post by CafeRacer » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 11:46 AM UTC

It truly feels like Jira.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#4

Post by draw_down » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

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Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#5

Post by muglug » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

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..."

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#6

Post by tupac_speedrap » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

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

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#7

Post by crinkly » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

CafeRacer wrote: post #3

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.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#8

Post by futurecat » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

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

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#9

Post by sleepytimetea » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #2

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.

Re: The GitHub website is slow on Safari

#10

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 1:10 PM UTC

There are even some famous names on those comments, guess it is pretty bad.