Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

Re:Improving site performance by shipping more CSS by jenadine on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:01AM (#49865199)

Using GitHub everyday, I haven't really noticed an improved performance. Actually i'd say pages are becoming slower. Browsing issues with many comments or big PR has a terrible experience as not everything gets loaded

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Re:Improving site performance by shipping more CSS by marginalia_nu on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:05AM (#49865215)

Yeah. It used to be unusable on mobile and great on desktop. But desktop has in my experience honestly been slipping pretty bad last few years. Maybe I live too far from the data center or something.

One weird tangentially related thing is checking whether a PR is merge:able after solving a conflict in this repo[1] for some reason takes several minutes. Maybe because there are 1000 commits in the same file. Doesn't seem UI related but weird regardless.

[1] https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...

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Re:Improving site performance by shipping more CSS by aquariusDue on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:34AM (#49866979)

I'm still a bit salty they fiddled with the Lists UI when star'ing a repo and adding it to a list.

The emojis I had at the beginning of the list name don't render anymore (they show up as :eyesore_emoji_name: instead) and the list is sorted alphabetically now instead of by last modified. Also it's one looong list instead of a small scroll-able container like it used to be.

This is on Firefox btw. Now I'm seriously thinking about moving these GitHub "bookmarks" into a separate place like a bookmark manager even if I lose a bit of convenience.

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