The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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 ].

> 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.

I’m pretty sure they used to do syntax highlighting on the server before and it was fast. Now they send down unhighlighted text that seems to choke the browser with anything but the smallest diffs.

Whoever had a KPI for improving server performance and decreasing cost got their promotion that quarter, that is for sure.

Servers cost money, the client is free (and pays you sometimes)!

The client costs money too, opportunity cost.

Which, unfortunately, cannot be measured :( so no KPIs. Darn!

Its all fun and games until you cut quality over and over so much your customers just leave. Ask Chrysler or GE. I mean they must have saved, what, billions across decades? And for free!

Well... um... not free actually, because those companies have been run into the ground, dragged through hell, revived, and then damned again.