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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: 0.024s | 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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DrBenCarson ◴[27 Aug 25 13:20 UTC] No.45039310[source]▶
Well yeah, but just imagine how much money they’re saving by delivering a subpar experience!
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zozbot234 ◴[27 Aug 25 14:52 UTC] No.45040527[source]▶
They're not even saving any money. Syntax highlighting is a trivial workload, whereas the average SPA spends a lot of time in pointless roundtrips that have the server send more data down the pipe than the SSR equivalent.
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1. sidewndr46 ◴[27 Aug 25 15:28 UTC] No.45041038[source]▶
I'll play devils advocate - does it save them some storage space or bandwidth in the CDN that delivers Github?
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2. Asmod4n ◴[27 Aug 25 16:31 UTC] No.45041845[source]▶
That's a good question, without looking into any of the code id say bandwidth cost goes higher when moving away from server side rendering since you have to send the code for client side rending to each client which connects.