I struggle to get excited about this sort of thing when the most essential functions of GitHub are falling apart. Reviewing PRs has somehow gotten even worse since the original react update.
I think the only thing that would fix this issue is for them to lose 20%+ of their customers to a competitor. Something very simple that can vacuum up the GHES migration archive and proceed as if it were 2018 again.
I'd be willing to completely sacrifice actions, project boards, copilot, et. al. if it meant I could have ultra fast views into code, issues and pulls. I really see no reason the PR view cannot be pre-rendered on the server when the branch is pushed each time. This should be an instantaneous response at review time. I don't care if it's 5 megabytes of diff - If my browser can handle the react slop, it can certainly handle a big chunk of static DOM.
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