GitHub's UI Performance Decline: A User's Frustration
By
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The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
The article discusses the noticeable slowdown in GitHub's user interface (UI) performance, with the author expressing frustration over the increasing lag. They question whether GitHub's developers are aware of the issue, given that they use the platform themselves. The author shares their method of troubleshooting slow websites by using developer tools and provides a specific example of profiling the UI slowdown.
Key quotes
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You guys developing at GitHub, you're using GitHub to develop it, right? Do you not see this? What's going on?
Whenever I bump into slow website which drives me nuts, I open the devtools and profile it. Who knows, maybe I find something to report and the problem will get fixed.
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