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I've got this feeling that the endless feature creep of Github has begun to cause rot of core essential features. Up until only recently, the PR review tab perf

I've got this feeling that the endless feature creep of Github has begun to cause rot of core essential features. Up until only recently, the PR review tab performed so poorly it was practically useless for large PRs.

dewey 1y ago
GitHub in essence is still pretty much the same, there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I can't say that I'm having issues with the performance either. I work with large PRs too (Especially if there's vendored dependencies) but I never ran into a show stopping performance issue that would make it "useless".
- davidspiess 1y ago
  I noticed this recently too when using Firefox.
- inetknght 1y ago
  > there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I remember GitHub from years ago. I still find myself looking for things that were there years ago but have since moved. Also, GitHub search is (still) comically useless. I just clone and use grep instead.
  - dunham 1y ago
    I've also loaded repositories into a web instance of vscode (with the '.' shortcut) and done Cmd-Sh-F, which also works better than their search.
  - whatevaa 1y ago
    Gitlab search is even worse, so not surprised.
- toastercat 1y ago
  > GitHub in essence is still pretty much the same, there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I think we're using two different products. Off the top of my head, I can think of Github Projects (the Trello-like feature), Github Marketplace, Github Discussions, the complete revamp of the file-viewer/editor, and all the new AI/LLM-based stuff baked into yet another feature known as Codespaces. > I can't say that I'm having issues with the performance either. I work with large PRs too Good for you. I suffered for maybe 4 years from this, and so have many others: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341
- jrvieira 1y ago
  Really? https://github.com/features https://github.com/features The same since when?
  - dewey 1y ago
    The same in the sense that it doesn't get in the way during my daily work with it. Yes they've added features but that didn't mean that existing features got removed or things got in the way.
    - jrvieira 1y ago
      In this particular case, they definitely did.
o_m 1y ago
GitHub isn't focusing on creating a good Git platform anymore, they are an AI company now
- dzader 1y ago
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- hugs 1y ago
  Bets on where everything/everyone goes next? Will it be like the transition from SourceForge to GitHub, where the center of gravity moves from one big place to another big place? Or more like Twitter, where factions split off to several smaller places?
  - o_m 1y ago
    Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again. Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded. I think it would be for the better if it split off, and hopefully more devs decide to self host with tools like Forgejo.
    - goku12 1y ago
      I'm all for Forgejo or even a simple forge without any namespaces (I abandoned GitHub when MS acquired them). But the major issue with these alternative platforms is the the discoverability of projects on them. Github doesn't have any noteworthy feature in this regard, but it has the first mover advantage. The users unfortunately ceded that advantage to them. Many forges are working on a federated development infrastructure. That's great. But I believe that for these platforms to really become popular, we must solve the problem of federated project search and discovery as well. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be paying much attention in this area.
    - DaSHacka 1y ago
      > Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again. I can almost guarentee we will. Consumers love simplicity through centralization. > Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded. Where are you seeing that? I've seen general dislike of large corpos forever, and the anti-US sentiment is more common abroad from places like Europe that have never 'liked' US culture and companies.
ajsnigrutin 1y ago
Still doesn't read email, but it's close to that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165602
- paradox460 1y ago
  You can interact with a lot of GitHub via email
azangru 1y ago
> I've got this feeling that the endless feature creep of Github has begun to cause rot of core essential features. Tangential, but... I was so excited by their frontend, which was slowly adopting web components, until after acquisition by Microsoft they started rewriting it in React. (Design is still very solid though!)
sleepybrett 1y ago
Yeah i've switched to doing pr reviews in goland because their ui is dogshit slow if there are more than like 10 files to diff.
cedws 1y ago
I often miss entire files in the review process because the review page collapses them by default and makes them hard to spot. If they’re going to be collapsed by default at least make it very visible. This is critical for security too, you don’t want people sneaking in code.

dewey 1y ago

GitHub in essence is still pretty much the same, there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I can't say that I'm having issues with the performance either. I work with large PRs too (Especially if there's vendored dependencies) but I never ran into a show stopping performance issue that would make it "useless".

davidspiess 1y ago
I noticed this recently too when using Firefox.
inetknght 1y ago
> there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I remember GitHub from years ago. I still find myself looking for things that were there years ago but have since moved. Also, GitHub search is (still) comically useless. I just clone and use grep instead.
- dunham 1y ago
  I've also loaded repositories into a web instance of vscode (with the '.' shortcut) and done Cmd-Sh-F, which also works better than their search.
- whatevaa 1y ago
  Gitlab search is even worse, so not surprised.
toastercat 1y ago
> GitHub in essence is still pretty much the same, there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I think we're using two different products. Off the top of my head, I can think of Github Projects (the Trello-like feature), Github Marketplace, Github Discussions, the complete revamp of the file-viewer/editor, and all the new AI/LLM-based stuff baked into yet another feature known as Codespaces. > I can't say that I'm having issues with the performance either. I work with large PRs too Good for you. I suffered for maybe 4 years from this, and so have many others: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341
jrvieira 1y ago
Really? https://github.com/features https://github.com/features The same since when?
- dewey 1y ago
  The same in the sense that it doesn't get in the way during my daily work with it. Yes they've added features but that didn't mean that existing features got removed or things got in the way.
  - jrvieira 1y ago
    In this particular case, they definitely did.

o_m 1y ago

GitHub isn't focusing on creating a good Git platform anymore, they are an AI company now

dzader 1y ago
[dead]
hugs 1y ago
Bets on where everything/everyone goes next? Will it be like the transition from SourceForge to GitHub, where the center of gravity moves from one big place to another big place? Or more like Twitter, where factions split off to several smaller places?
- o_m 1y ago
  Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again. Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded. I think it would be for the better if it split off, and hopefully more devs decide to self host with tools like Forgejo.
  - goku12 1y ago
    I'm all for Forgejo or even a simple forge without any namespaces (I abandoned GitHub when MS acquired them). But the major issue with these alternative platforms is the the discoverability of projects on them. Github doesn't have any noteworthy feature in this regard, but it has the first mover advantage. The users unfortunately ceded that advantage to them. Many forges are working on a federated development infrastructure. That's great. But I believe that for these platforms to really become popular, we must solve the problem of federated project search and discovery as well. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be paying much attention in this area.
  - DaSHacka 1y ago
    > Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again. I can almost guarentee we will. Consumers love simplicity through centralization. > Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded. Where are you seeing that? I've seen general dislike of large corpos forever, and the anti-US sentiment is more common abroad from places like Europe that have never 'liked' US culture and companies.

ajsnigrutin 1y ago

Still doesn't read email, but it's close to that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165602

paradox460 1y ago
You can interact with a lot of GitHub via email

azangru 1y ago

> I've got this feeling that the endless feature creep of Github has begun to cause rot of core essential features. Tangential, but... I was so excited by their frontend, which was slowly adopting web components, until after acquisition by Microsoft they started rewriting it in React. (Design is still very solid though!)

sleepybrett 1y ago

Yeah i've switched to doing pr reviews in goland because their ui is dogshit slow if there are more than like 10 files to diff.

cedws 1y ago

I often miss entire files in the review process because the review page collapses them by default and makes them hard to spot. If they’re going to be collapsed by default at least make it very visible. This is critical for security too, you don’t want people sneaking in code.