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Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by gz09 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:08PM (#50409274)
I wish they would instead focus on fixing the regressions with PRs first... For example: There is a nasty bug that got introduced recently where you click "Merge when ready" but your chances of things actually going to the merge queue seem to be only at about 60-70%. When it happens the way you usually find out if things still aren't merged the next day.

Their support has acknowledged the issue to us over a month ago but no fix as of now.

Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by leipert on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:12PM (#50409314)
Same. What’s even worse is that there is no visibility into it.

Became so bad for us that we switched to an external merge queue provider (trunk.io)

P90 of merge queue entry _started_ dropped from up to 40! minutes to 16 seconds. And it’s the same underlying mechanism, creating a branch and running CI on it.

Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by spike021 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:19PM (#50409358)
Just the other day my teammate approved my PR and despite the repo having that merge when ready feature enabled, it kept not working and throwing some random error.

IIRC we unapproved it, approved without that enabled, and then manually merged it.

Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by esafak on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:26PM (#50409386)
Their workflow scheduler is broken too. I noticed that workflows were getting scheduled hours late or not at all, so I had my own workflow orchestrator trigger them.
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by cadamsdotcom on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:46PM (#50409486)
The fact Github published this while another team is failing to fix this bug is likely a side effect of the company having more than one employee combined with those different employees having different tasks they're currently working on.

Companies are rarely monolithic and are made up of more than one person who often don't communicate with one another and often don't do the exact things you'd like them to - and often have different cultures which differently emphasize fixes and new work.

Hope you're not having too bad of a week as a result of your fix not landing fast enough.

Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by losvedir on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:24PM (#50409689)
A bug that's been driving me crazy lately is the file list in the sidebar doesn't reliably link you to the right file when you click on a filename. I find myself clicking it several times while the code on the right jumps around until it finally lands on the right file.

Anyone else experience this?

Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by sirfz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:28PM (#50409714)
Yes I noticed the same issue
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by ambicapter on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:50PM (#50409797)
I've seen that too. Takes one or two clicks for it to actually scroll to the correct file.
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by DrewADesign on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:01PM (#50409849)
Overall, this isn’t a super great time for software users that value working features over new features.
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by Terr_ on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:10AM (#50410568)
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Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by DrewADesign on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:15AM (#50413564)
Indeed. Two sides of the same fleece-vested coin.
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by cbovis on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:02AM (#50411559)
I also frequently see this. I assume it's related to how files on the right are lazy loaded.
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by inib on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:33AM (#50412364)
Yes! The file clicking one bothers me so much.
Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by twhitmore on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:55AM (#50411814)
Github PR viewer UX is just horrible. The UI is bloated, slow and very very difficult to use. (For example, commenting on a Copilot comment frequently takes 5-8s to the UI to submit and update.)

Why not fix the garbage UI first?

If we could just see unresolved comments and CI status in a page that take 100ms to load and 1 second to scroll to the bottom, everything would be fine.

The problem is that it the PR Conversation page takes 20-25 seconds to load a scroll through; and is full of outdated reports from Copilot/ Devin that don't go away of themselves, and don't have a good UI to be dismissed, once they're irrelevant.

I'm outside the US so poor UI <-> server network interaction may be magnified. But for something that could be simple and reasonable, it's just overloaded with garbage and an appalling experience.

Fix the basics first. I'd fire the entire team and every single Product Manager/ UX Lead involved. Anybody from Github listening?

Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview by calderwoodra on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:09AM (#50412570)
That's why I ask my agents to merge my PRs for me, it's much more reliable and take the cognitive load off