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The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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446 points talboren | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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PedroBatista ◴[27 Aug 25 13:10 UTC] No.45039192[source]▶
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 problem is not "Rails" or [ insert any other tech BS to deflect the real problems ].

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bob1029 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:14 UTC] No.45039249[source]▶
> 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.

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a-french-anon ◴[27 Aug 25 13:52 UTC] No.45039686[source]▶
We were very few to rant about it, 1 year ago: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/62372

Their "solution" was to enable SSR for us ranters' accounts.

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1. bob1029 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:59 UTC] No.45039826[source]▶
> Server-side rendering (SSR) flag has been enabled for each of you. Can you take a look, click around and let me know if this has resolved some of the usability issues that you've reported here?

The fact that they have this ability / awareness and haven't completely reverted by now is shocking to me.

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2. adithyassekhar ◴[27 Aug 25 14:39 UTC] No.45040364[source]▶
Honestly that's wild. This should be an option in their settings.