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The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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446 points talboren | 1 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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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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agos ◴[27 Aug 25 13:29 UTC] No.45039407[source]▶
if you look at the thread, the explanation is not this easy, as much as it's satisfying to blame React (or any other single tech)
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1. Zanfa ◴[27 Aug 25 18:30 UTC] No.45043242[source]▶
Not once have I seen a site go from SSR to SPA and been pleasantly surprised. It always trends towards worse in responsiveness and overall UX.

I’m sure you could make something work better as a SPA, but nobody does.