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The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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446 points talboren | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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ori_b ◴[27 Aug 25 15:41 UTC] No.45041207[source]▶
It's frustrating, because GitHub used to perform quite well, before it was a single page app.
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1. fkyoureadthedoc ◴[27 Aug 25 15:58 UTC] No.45041422[source]▶
clicking around GitHub and checking network panel, it seems to load plenty of server rendered HTML. Some views seem to use React within the page, but it doesn't appear to be a React SPA.
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2. ori_b ◴[27 Aug 25 16:06 UTC] No.45041515[source]▶
Maybe I should have said pre-react. I don't know what GitHub did specifically, but several years ago it used to be reasonably fast and relatively pleasant to use. It regressed a lot over the last few years, seemingly correlated with attempts at interactive features.
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3. captn3m0 ◴[27 Aug 25 16:21 UTC] No.45041709[source]▶
It used to be jQuery + PJAX
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4. spankalee ◴[27 Aug 25 16:50 UTC] No.45042053{3}[source]▶
More recently - and still - it was web components. React is gradually creeping in.