Comment by jeremyjh

13 days ago

Github can get pretty sluggish as well; if you have a pull request with lots of comments page loads begin to take a dozen seconds or more. AI code review bots make it painful for humans to use it.

Everything in GitHub is slow. Very simple stuff, too. It's annoying.

In any case, it's a closed source, underfeatured, Microsoft owned platform for Open Source software, so what are we doing there anyway?

  • Resume building, for one. Discoverability, for another. Redmonk covered how much of a game changer Github was back in the early days.

    I am personally excited about radicle — a local-first, distributed forge.