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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?


Matyáš Racek's blog

The cherry on top is the new loading bar that just drives me absolutely nuts, because it reminds me how slow the whole transition is: Like, what's the point of doing client side routing, when you just recreate the full page reload experience, but slower? Don't even get me started on the diff view itself - yes, the one that periodically freezes for 2 seconds while browsing through large PR's - maybe it has something to do with the fact that it renders thousands of invisible plus buttons with the same inlined svg icon:

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