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446 points talboren | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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shiomiru ◴[27 Aug 25 16:40 UTC] No.45041936[source]▶
> The problem is they abandoned rails for react.

Which, it seems, was a result of the M$ acquisition: https://muan.co/posts/javascript

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sunaookami ◴[27 Aug 25 17:08 UTC] No.45042270[source]▶
fyi this page detects a hacker news referrer and sends you in an infinite loop. Have to open the link via copy-paste.
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adithyassekhar ◴[27 Aug 25 17:49 UTC] No.45042722[source]▶
Lol I respect that https://muan.co/no-yc/
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NetOpWibby ◴[28 Aug 25 07:16 UTC] No.45049372[source]▶
Based tbh
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whstl ◴[28 Aug 25 07:34 UTC] No.45049479[source]▶
I love the explanation in the linked site:

> Writing on the internet can be a two-way thing, a learning experience guided by iteration and feedback. I’ve learned some bad habits from Hacker News. I added Caveats sections to articles to make sure that nobody would take my points too broadly. I edited away asides and comments that were fun but would make articles less focused. I came to expect pedantic, judgmental feedback on everything I wrote, regardless of what it was.

https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news

Which is true. Pedantism is the lowest form of pseudo-intelligence.

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1. MereInterest ◴[28 Aug 25 12:07 UTC] No.45051161[source]▶
> Pedantism is the lowest form of pseudo-intelligence.

You can’t just lay this bear trap of an opportunity and expect me to not pedantically state that the word is either “pedantry”, the activity performed by pedants, or “pedantic”, to describe such activities.

“Pedantism” would be a philosophy or viewpoint that extols pedantry. Pedantism would be to pedantry as deontology is to rule-following, a justification of an activity. As such, pedantism would be a slightly higher form of pseudo-intelligence than mere pedantry.

But only slightly.

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2. whstl ◴[28 Aug 25 14:22 UTC] No.45052526[source]▶
I added Pedantism to my spell checker, so now it's not red anymore. Checkmate.
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3. rkomorn ◴[28 Aug 25 14:25 UTC] No.45052566[source]▶
Not to be confused with pedentation which is

> indenting or quoting yourself in a way that makes it look more authoritative