Comment by keb_
8 days ago
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.
8 days ago
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.
GitHub isn't focusing on creating a good Git platform anymore, they are an AI company now
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?
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.
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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.
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!)
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.
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".
> 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
> 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.
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.
Gitlab search is even worse, so not surprised.
I noticed this recently too when using Firefox.
Really?
https://github.com/features
The same since when?
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.
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Still doesn't read email, but it's close to that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20165602
You can interact with a lot of GitHub via email
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.