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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: 0.224s | 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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1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[27 Aug 25 17:09 UTC] No.45042280[source]▶
"The Github website is slow everywhere."

Perhaps it depends what software one is using

For example, commandline search and tarball/zipball retrieval from the website, e.g., github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com and codeload.github.com, are not slow for me, certainly not any slower than Gitlab

I do not use a browser nor do I use the git software

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kokanee ◴[27 Aug 25 18:35 UTC] No.45043301[source]▶
The website is fast if you don't use the website
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1. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[29 Aug 25 21:48 UTC] No.45069806[source]▶
A server listening on port 443, responding to HTTP and serving HTML is generally known as as a "website"

The servers at https://codeload.github.com and https://raw.githubusercontent.com are two examples

Each redirects to https://github.com