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Somewhat tangential, but has anyone else noticed that simply going back and forth between pages on the Github site is incredibly slow? There are times it will t

Somewhat tangential, but has anyone else noticed that simply going back and forth between pages on the Github site is incredibly slow? There are times it will take 10+ seconds to go back to a page I was just on.

bobbylarrybobby 3y ago
Ah, so I'm not crazy! Yes, refreshing a page mid load is often faster than waiting for it to finish naturally.
withinboredom 3y ago
The javascript annoys the hell out of me. It tries to 'mimic' a browser but it comes awefully short. For example, if you go to the PR page and click issues, then quickly click the PR tab (say you missed the filters dropdown) it doesn't cancel the request. Works fine with JS disabled. Same if you click across all the tabs in quick succession, if any one of the requests complete before you click the next one, all clicks get disabled for a few hundred ms or so. Super annoying. I basically have js disabled on GitHub except for certain pages.
TechBro8615 3y ago
On mobile (iOS Safari) the navigation is often broken and swiping back goes to the wrong page. This usually happens between the readme and any file in the files browser, especially if I go back before the current page has completely loaded. I suspect there is a race condition with JavaScript hijacking the history API and not updating it quickly enough so that if you navigate back before the history has been made consistent, you end up on the wrong page.
yamtaddle 3y ago
It's all been going downhill since they had some big redesign a few years back and jazzed it up with a bunch of unecessary Javascript. It's changed even more since then. It's inching toward being an "app", which is going to put it in the same "I dread clicking a link to it" bucket as other "apps", pretty soon. Current pet peeve: clicking the little search field doesn't put my cursor in that field, but instead pops a HUGE command-bar-type UI that covers everything. I hate, hate, hate "Surprise! Ta-da!" UI like that. And the more of that crap they add, the slower the site's gonna get, to load and to use.
mbonaci 3y ago
Yeah, it behaves like Jenkins Blue Ocean :)

bobbylarrybobby 3y ago

Ah, so I'm not crazy! Yes, refreshing a page mid load is often faster than waiting for it to finish naturally.

withinboredom 3y ago

The javascript annoys the hell out of me. It tries to 'mimic' a browser but it comes awefully short. For example, if you go to the PR page and click issues, then quickly click the PR tab (say you missed the filters dropdown) it doesn't cancel the request. Works fine with JS disabled. Same if you click across all the tabs in quick succession, if any one of the requests complete before you click the next one, all clicks get disabled for a few hundred ms or so. Super annoying. I basically have js disabled on GitHub except for certain pages.

TechBro8615 3y ago

On mobile (iOS Safari) the navigation is often broken and swiping back goes to the wrong page. This usually happens between the readme and any file in the files browser, especially if I go back before the current page has completely loaded. I suspect there is a race condition with JavaScript hijacking the history API and not updating it quickly enough so that if you navigate back before the history has been made consistent, you end up on the wrong page.

yamtaddle 3y ago

It's all been going downhill since they had some big redesign a few years back and jazzed it up with a bunch of unecessary Javascript. It's changed even more since then. It's inching toward being an "app", which is going to put it in the same "I dread clicking a link to it" bucket as other "apps", pretty soon. Current pet peeve: clicking the little search field doesn't put my cursor in that field, but instead pops a HUGE command-bar-type UI that covers everything. I hate, hate, hate "Surprise! Ta-da!" UI like that. And the more of that crap they add, the slower the site's gonna get, to load and to use.

mbonaci 3y ago

Yeah, it behaves like Jenkins Blue Ocean :)